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A Warning to the Priests

Malachi 2:1

In 11 translations

BSB
“And now this decree is for you, O priests:
KJV
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
WEB
“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.
ASV
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.
LSV
“And now, to you [is] this charge, O priests,
YLT
And now, to you [is] this charge, O priests,
DBY
And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.
DRC
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.
GNV
And now, O ye Priests, this commandement is for you.
JPS
And now, this commandment is for you, O ye priests.
LXXE
And now, O priests, this commandment is to you.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וְעַתָּ֗ה אֲלֵיכֶ֛ם הַמִּצְוָ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את הַכֹּהֲנִֽים׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ νῦν ἡ ἐντολὴ αὕτη πρὸς ὑμᾶς οἱ ἱερεῖς.

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◆ Prophecies of Malachi

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask,…
  • Hosea 5:1“Hear this, O priests! Take heed, O house of Israel! Give ear, O royal house! For this judgment is against you because you have been a snare at Mizpah, a net spread out on Tabor.
  • Jeremiah 13:13then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
  • Lamentations 4:13But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

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