Verse 7
Malachi 2:7
Bible in Basic English
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For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי שִׂפְתֵ֤י כֹהֵן֙ יִשְׁמְרוּ דַ֔עַת וְ/תוֹרָ֖ה יְבַקְשׁ֣וּ מִ/פִּ֑י/הוּ כִּ֛י מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָֽה צְבָא֖וֹת הֽוּא
English Translation
For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law from his mouth, for he is a messenger of the Lord of hosts.
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Chapter 2 Context
1
And now, O you priests, this order is for you.
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2
If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, th...
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3
See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts...
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4
And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Le...
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5
My agreement with him was on my side life and peace, and I gave them to him; on his side fear, and h...
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6
True teaching was in his mouth, and no evil was seen on his lips: he was walking with me in peace an...
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7
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from...
8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made t...
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9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not ke...
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10
Have we not all one father? has not one God (Elohim) made us? why are we, every one of us, acting fa...
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11
Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made...
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12
The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him...
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13
And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives...
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14
But you say, For what reason? Because the Lord has been a witness between you and the wife of your e...
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15
... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.
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16
For I am against the putting away of a wife, says the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel, and against...
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17
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