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Malachi 1

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14 verses in KJV · 276 outgoing cross-reference links

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Opening verses of Malachi 1 (KJV)

1:1 The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.

1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,

1:3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

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Historical / attribution context

Traditional writer attribution: Malachi

Approximate study chronology: c. 397 BC

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