“Because of you I will rebuke your descendants[a]; I will smear on your faces the dung(A) from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it.(B) And you will know that I have sent you this warning so that my covenant with Levi(C) may continue,” says the Lord Almighty. “My covenant was with him, a covenant(D) of life and peace,(E) and I gave them to him; this called for reverence(F) and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 2:3 Or will blight your grain

Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

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