KJV King James Version
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.
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Malachi 2:8
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.
WEB World English Bible
But 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 Yahweh of Armies.
ASV American Standard Version
But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.
Surrounding context — Malachi 2
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.
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וְאַתֶּם֙H859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)סַרְתֶּ֣םH5493 · surto turn aside: removeמִן־H4480 · minfromהַדֶּ֔רֶךְH1870 · de.rekhway: conductהִכְשַׁלְתֶּ֥םH3782 · ka.shalto stumbleרַבִּ֖יםH7227 · ravmanyבַּתּוֹרָ֑הH8451 · to.rahinstructionשִֽׁחַתֶּם֙H7843 · sha.chatto ruinבְּרִ֣יתH1285 · be.ritcovenantהַלֵּוִ֔יH3878 · le.viLeviאָמַ֖רH559 · a.marto sayיְהוָ֥הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDצְבָאֽוֹת׃H6635 · tsa.vaarmy
Cross-references
Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.Jeremiah 18:15Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways [from] the ancient paths, to walk in paths, [in] a way not cast up;Jeremiah 17:5Thus saith the LORD; Cursed [be] the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.Isaiah 30:11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.Ezekiel 44:10And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.Malachi 2:5My 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.1 Samuel 2:17Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.Hebrews 3:12Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.Matthew 15:2-5Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.Luke 11:45-46Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.Psalm 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.1 Samuel 2:30Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed [that] thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.1 Samuel 2:24Nay, my sons; for [it is] no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’S people to transgress.Romans 2:19-24And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,Isaiah 9:16For the leaders of this people cause [them] to err; and [they that are] led of them [are] destroyed.Isaiah 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.Daniel 9:5-6We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:Leviticus 21:15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.
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