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1 Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,| says the LORD who rules over all, |I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses--indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart. 3 I am about to discipline your children and will spread offal on your faces, the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it. 4 Then you will know that I sent this commandment to you so that my covenant may continue to be with Levi,| says the LORD who rules over all. 5 My covenant with him was designed to bring life and peace. I gave its statutes to him to fill him with awe, and he indeed revered me and stood in awe before me. Malachi 2:1-5, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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