Malachi 2:11-16
11Judah has been afaithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For bJudah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12May the Lord cut off from the tents of Jacob any descendant ▼▼Hebrew any who wakes and answers
of the man who does this, who dbrings an offering to the Lord of hosts! 13And this second thing you do. eYou cover the Lord’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand. 14 fBut you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord gwas witness between you and the wife of your youth, hto whom iyou have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. 15 jDid he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? ▼
▼Hebrew in it
And what was the one God ▼▼Hebrew the one
seeking? ▼▼Or And not one has done this who has a portion of the Spirit. And what was that one seeking?
nGodly offspring. So guard yourselves ▼▼Or So take care; also verse 16
in your spirit, and let none of you be pfaithless to the wife of your youth. 16“For qthe man who does not love his wife but divorces her, ▼▼Hebrew who hates and divorces
says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers ▼▼Probable meaning (compare Septuagint and Deuteronomy 24:1–4); or “The Lord, the God of Israel, says that he hates divorce, and him who covers
his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and tdo not be faithless.”
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