Malachi 2:10-12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Judah’s Marital Unfaithfulness
10 Don’t all of us have one Father?(A) Didn’t one God create us?(B) Why then do we act treacherously against one another,(C) profaning(D) the covenant of our fathers?(E) 11 Judah has acted treacherously, and a detestable(F) thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned(G) the Lord’s sanctuary,[a](H) which He loves,(I) and has married the daughter of a foreign god.[b](J) 12 To the man who does this, may the Lord cut off(K) any descendants[c][d](L) from the tents of Jacob, even if they present an offering to the Lord of Hosts.
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- Malachi 2:11 Or profaned what is holy to the Lord
- Malachi 2:11 = a woman who worshiped a foreign god
- Malachi 2:12 One Hb ms, LXX, DSS read off one witnessing or answering
- Malachi 2:12 Lit off one waking or answering; Hb obscure
Malachi 2:10-12
International Standard Version
A Plea and a Prayer from Malachi
10 Do we not have one father?[a] Has not one God created us? Why does each of us act deceitfully, each man against his own brother, to profane the covenant of our ancestors? 11 Judah has become unfaithful, and a detestable thing was committed in Israel and Jerusalem. Indeed, Judah profaned the Holy Place of the Lord, which he loves, and married a daughter of a foreign god. 12 May the Lord exclude from the community[b] of Jacob any man who does this, whoever he may be,[c] even though he brings offerings to the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.
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- Malachi 2:10 The reference is either to Abraham as ancestor of Israel or to God as heavenly Father.
- Malachi 2:12 Lit. tents
- Malachi 2:12 Lit. he who awakens and he who answers
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