1"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

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Malachi 1:6, Hosea 5:1, Jeremiah 13:13, Malachi 1:6, Hosea 5:1

2If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says the Lord of hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.

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Luke 17:18, Revelation 14:7, Luke 17:18, Revelation 14:7, Psalms 69:22

3Behold, I will rebuke your seed, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.

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Nahum 3:6, Nahum 3:6, Malachi 2:9, Malachi 2:9, 1 Kings 14:10

4You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says the Lord of hosts.

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Numbers 3:12, Numbers 3:12, Ezekiel 38:23, Ezekiel 38:23, Matthew 3:12

5"My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.

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Numbers 25:12, Numbers 25:13, Numbers 25:12, Numbers 25:13, Ezekiel 34:25

6The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

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Daniel 12:3, Daniel 12:3, Revelation 14:5, 2 Timothy 2:15, 2 Timothy 2:16

7For 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.

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2 Timothy 2:24, 2 Timothy 2:25, 2 Timothy 2:24, 2 Timothy 2:25, Leviticus 10:11

8But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says the Lord of hosts.

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Nehemiah 13:29, Nehemiah 13:29, Jeremiah 18:15, Jeremiah 18:15, Isaiah 30:11

9"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

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Deuteronomy 1:17, 1 Samuel 2:30, Deuteronomy 1:17, 1 Samuel 2:30, Malachi 2:8

10Do we not all have one father? Hasn't one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?

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Psalms 100:3, Psalms 100:3, Malachi 2:11, Malachi 2:11, 1 Corinthians 8:6

11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

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2 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 6:18, 2 Corinthians 6:14, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Ezra 9:1

12The Lord will cut off, to the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob, and him who offers an offering to the Lord of hosts.

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Isaiah 9:14, Isaiah 9:16, Numbers 24:5, Nehemiah 13:28, Nehemiah 13:29

13This again you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn't regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand.

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Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:15, Isaiah 1:11, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 14:12

14Yet you say, 'Why?' Because the Lord has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.

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Malachi 2:15, Malachi 2:15, Ecclesiastes 9:9, Isaiah 54:6, Ecclesiastes 9:9

15Did he not make one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

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Matthew 19:4, Matthew 19:6, Matthew 19:4, Matthew 19:6, Malachi 2:14

16For I hate divorce," says the Lord, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!" says the Lord of hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.

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Matthew 19:3, Matthew 19:9, Matthew 19:3, Matthew 19:9, Matthew 5:31

17You have wearied the Lord with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the Lord, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'

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Isaiah 43:24, Isaiah 43:24, 2 Peter 3:3, 2 Peter 3:4, Zephaniah 1:12