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Yes, I will rebuke your offspring.[a] I will smear animal bowels and their contents on your faces, the bowels produced by your festivals, and you will be hauled off with them.[b]

You will know that I sent you this commandment, so that my covenant with Levi may continue, says the Lord of Armies. My covenant with him was life and peace, which I gave to him. It was a covenant of reverence,[c] and he revered me. He respected my name.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:3 Literally seed
  2. Malachi 2:3 The animal bowels and their contents were the waste produced by Israel’s festival sacrifices. It was to be dumped at a distance from the holy place.
  3. Malachi 2:5 Or fear