Mal 1
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The burden of the word of YHWH to Israel by Malachi.
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I have loved you, says YHWH. Yet you say, Wherein have you loved us? Was not Esau
Jacob`s brother, says YHWH: yet I loved Jacob;
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but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and [gave] his heritage to
the jackals of the wilderness.
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Whereas Edom says, We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;
thus says YHWH of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call
them The border of wickedness, and The people against whom YHWH has indignation for
ever.
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And your eyes shall see, and you shall say, YHWH be magnified beyond the border of
Israel.
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A son honors his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is
mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? says YHWH of hosts to you, O priests,
that despise my name. And you say, Wherein have we despised your name?
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You offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And you say, Wherein have we polluted you?
In that you say, The table of YHWH is contemptible.
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And when you offer the blind for sacrifice, it is no evil! and when you offer the
lame and sick, it is no evil! Present it now to your governor; will he be pleased
with you? or will he accept your person? says YHWH of hosts.
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And now, I pray you, entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us: this
has been by your means: will he accept any of your persons? says YHWH of hosts.
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Oh that there were one among you that would shut the doors, that you might not kindle
[fire on] mine altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says YHWH of hosts, neither
will I accept an offering at your hand.
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For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same my name [shall be]
great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense [shall be] offered to my name,
and a pure offering: for my name [shall be] great among the Gentiles, says YHWH of
hosts.
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But you profane it, in that you say, The table of YHWH is polluted, and the fruit
thereof, even its food, is contemptible.
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You say also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and you have snuffed at it, says YHWH
of hosts; and you have brought that which was taken by violence, and the lame, and
the sick; thus you bring the offering: should I accept this at your hand? says YHWH.
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But cursed be the deceiver, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices
to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, says YHWH of hosts, and my name
is terrible among the Gentiles.