Malachi 2:10

Have we not all Av Echad? 1 Hath not El Echad created us? 1 Why do we commit chillul Brit Avoteinu 1 by every man breaking faith with his brother? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 1 contemptible and shefalim before kol HaAm 1 because ye have not been shomrim of darkhei of Me, 1 but have shown partiality in torah. 1

11Yehudah hath broken faith, 1 and a toeva (abomination) is committed 1 in Yisroel and in Yerushalayim; 1 for Yehudah hath committed chillul against 1 the Beis Hamikdash Hashem loves, 1 by marrying the bat el nekhar. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 19:5Now therefore, if ye will obey My voice very carefully, and be shomer over My brit, then ye shall be a segullah (treasured possession) unto Me above all people; for kol ha'aretz is Mine;

Joshua 23:12Else if ye do in anywise turn back, and have deveykus unto the remnant of these Goyim, even these that remain among you, and shall inter-marry with them, associate with them, and they with you;

Ezra 9:11Which Thou hast commanded by Thy avadim the nevi'im, saying, HaAretz, unto which ye go to possess it, is an eretz niddah (unclean land) with the filthiness of the Am HaAretz, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their tum'a.

Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O Elohai, because they have defiled the kehunah, and the brit (covenant) of the kehunah, and of the Levi'im.

Psalms 100:3Know ye that Hashem He is Elohim; 1 it is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves, 1 His people, the tzon of His pasture. 1

Isaiah 43:7Even every one that is called by My Shem, 1 whom I have created for My kavod, 1 whom I have formed and I have made. 1

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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