Mal 1:2 | NASB2020 | STEP | “I have loved you,” says the Lord . But you say , “ How have You loved us?” “ Was Esau not Jacob’s brother ?” declares the Lord . “Yet I have loved Jacob ;

a Deut 4:37; 7:8; 23:5; Is 41:8, 9; Jer 31:3; John 15:12

Malachi 1:2

2 “I have ^aloved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I ^bhave loved Jacob;