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Malachi 1

God's Love for Jacob

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The  1 aoracle of the word of the LORD to  bIsrael through  2Malachi.

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"I have  aloved you," says the LORD. But you say, "How have You loved us?" "Was not Esau Jacob's brother?" declares the LORD. "Yet I  bhave loved Jacob;

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but I have hated Esau, and I have  amade his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness."

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Though Edom says, "We have been  abeaten down, but we will  1 breturn and build up the ruins"; thus says the LORD of hosts, "They may  cbuild, but I will tear down; and men will call them the  2wicked territory, and the people  3toward whom the LORD is indignant  dforever."

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Your eyes will see this and you will say, " aThe LORD  1be magnified beyond the  2border of Israel!"

Sin of the Priests

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" `A son  ahonors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a  bfather, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My  1respect?' says the LORD of hosts to you, O  cpriests who despise My name. But you say, `How have we despised Your name?'

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"You are presenting  adefiled  1 bfood upon My altar. But you say, `How have we defiled You?' In that you say, `The  ctable of the LORD is to be despised.'

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"But when you present the  ablind for sacrifice, is it not evil? And when you present the lame and sick, is it not evil?  1Why not offer it to your  bgovernor? Would he be pleased with you? Or would he receive you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.

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"But now  1will you not  aentreat God's favor, that He may be gracious to us?  2With such an offering on your part, will He  breceive any of you kindly?" says the LORD of hosts.

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"Oh that there were one among you who would  ashut the  1gates, that you might not uselessly kindle fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you," says the LORD of hosts, " bnor will I accept an offering from  2you.

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"For from the  arising of the sun even to its setting,  bMy name will be  cgreat among the nations, and in every place  dincense is going to be offered to My name, and a grain offering that is pure; for My name will be  egreat among the nations," says the LORD of hosts.

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"But you are  aprofaning it, in that you say, `The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.'

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"You also say, ` 1My, how  atiresome it is!' And you disdainfully sniff at it," says the LORD of hosts, "and you bring what was taken by  brobbery and what is  clame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I  dreceive that from your hand?" says the LORD.

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"But cursed be the  aswindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a  bblemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great  cKing," says the LORD of hosts, "and My name is  1 dfeared among the  2nations."



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