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So for you, O priests, this commandment is: |
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if you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, that I will send a curse upon you, and will curse your blessings, and have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. |
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Behold, I will corrupt your shoulder, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts, and take you away with it. |
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And you know that I have sent this commandment to my covenant with Levi, says the LORD of hosts. |
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My covenant was with him [covenant] of life and peace; and I gave them to him, and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name. |
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The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; in peace and uprightness he walked with me, and turned many from sin. |
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For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. |
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But you have turned aside from the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law, have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts. |
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Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, because you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
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Not one you have all of us the Father? Is not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers? |
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Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah holiness of the LORD which he loved, and married the daughter of a foreign god. |
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The one who does this, the Lord will destroy from the tents of Jacob Vigil guard and responsible, and bringing a sacrifice to the Lord of hosts. |
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And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears, weeping and groaning, because He no longer regards to the offering, and does not accept umilostvitelnoy sacrifice from your hands. |
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You say, 'what'? Because the Lord has been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant. |
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But I do not do the same if one of the spirit in it? What made this one? he wanted to get away from God's offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. |
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For I hate divorce, says the Lord God of Israel; covereth violence with his garment, saith the LORD of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously. |
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You have wearied the Lord with your words, 'How have we wearied him?' In that ye say: 'Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of justice?' |
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