Verse 7

Malachi 2:7

King James Version

7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

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 ye priests, this commandment is for you. Focus ↗

2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD... Focus ↗

3 Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feas... Focus ↗

4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, s... Focus ↗

5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared... Focus ↗

6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peac... Focus ↗

7 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is th...

8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the... Focus ↗

9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not... Focus ↗

10 Have we not all one father? hath not one God (Elohim) created us? why do we deal treacherously every... Focus ↗

11 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Juda... Focus ↗

12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the master and the scholar, out of the tabernacles of... Focus ↗

13 And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, with weeping, and with cryin... Focus ↗

14 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, ag... Focus ↗

15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek... Focus ↗

16 For the LORD, the God (Elohim) of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violen... Focus ↗

17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Ever... Focus ↗

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