Malachi 2:10

Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

9Therefore have I also made you contemptible, and base before all people, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted persons in the law.

11Juda hath transgressed, and abomination hath been committed in Israel, and in Jerusalem: for Juda hath profaned the holiness of the Lord, which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange God.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine.

Joshua 23:12But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

Ezra 9:11Which thou hast commanded by the hand of thy servants the prophets, saying: The land which you go to possess, is an unclean land, according to the uncleanness of the people, and of other lands, with their abominations, who have filled it from mouth to mouth with their filth.

Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Psalms 100:3Know ye that the Lord he is God: he made us, and not we ourselves. We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.

Isaiah 43:7And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory, I have formed him, and made him.

Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:2-10

The Office of the Priesthood; Charge against the Priests; The Priests Censured and Threatened. ( b. c. 400.) 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;… Read the whole commentary →

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