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1 And now, O ye priests, this com­mand­ment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glo­ry unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your bless­ings: yea, I have cursed them al­ready, be­cause ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Be­hold, I will cor­rupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it. 4 And ye shall know that I have sent this com­mand­ment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear where­with he feared me, and was afraid be­fore my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and in­iq­ui­ty was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and eq­ui­ty, and did turn many away from in­iq­ui­ty. 7 For 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. 8 But ye are de­part­ed out of the way; ye have caused many to stum­ble at the law; ye have cor­rupt­ed the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts. 9 There­fore have I also made you con­temptible and base be­fore all the peo­ple, ac­cord­ing as ye have not kept my ways, but have been par­tial in the law. 10 Have we not all one fa­ther? hath not one God cre­at­ed us? why do we deal treach­er­ous­ly ev­ery man against his broth­er, by pro­fan­ing the covenant of our fa­thers? 11 Ju­dah hath dealt treach­er­ous­ly, and an abom­i­na­tion is com­mit­ted in Is­rael and in Jerusalem; for Ju­dah hath pro­faned the ho­li­ness of the LORD which he loved, and hath mar­ried the daugh­ter of a strange god. 12 The LORD will cut off the man that doeth this, the mas­ter and the schol­ar, out of the taber­na­cles of Ja­cob, and him that of­fer­eth an of­fer­ing unto the LORD of hosts. 13 And this have ye done again, cov­er­ing the al­tar of the LORD with tears, with weep­ing, and with cry­ing out, in­so­much that he re­gardeth not the of­fer­ing any more, or re­ceiveth it with good will at your hand. 14 Yet ye say, Where­fore? Be­cause the LORD hath 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. 15 And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spir­it. And where­fore one? That he might seek a god­ly seed. There­fore take heed to your spir­it, and let none deal treach­er­ous­ly against the wife of his youth. 16 For the LORD, the God of Is­rael, saith that he hateth putting away: for one cov­ereth vi­o­lence with his gar­ment, saith the LORD of hosts: there­fore take heed to your spir­it, that ye deal not treach­er­ous­ly. 17 Ye have wea­ried the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Where­in have we wea­ried him? When 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 judg­ment?