Malachi 2:14

Yet ye say: Wherefore? 1 Because Hashem hath been ed (witness) 1 between thee and the wife of thy youth, 1 against whom thou hast dealt treacherously, breaking faith: 1 yet is she thy chaveret, 1 and the wife of thy brit. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

13And this too have ye done, 1 covering the mizbe'ach of Hashem with tears, 1 with weeping, and with crying out, 1 because that He regardeth not the minchah any more, 1 nor receiveth it with ratzon (good will) at your hand. 1

15And did not Hashem make echad? 1 And the remnant of the ruach is Hashemʼs. 1 And why echad? 1 That He might seek zera Elohim. 1 Therefore be shomer of your ruach, 1 and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 2:18And Hashem Elohim said, It is not tov that the adam should be alone; I will make him an ezer (a helper) suitable for him.

Judges 11:10And the ziknei Gil'ad said unto Yiftach, Hashem be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

Proverbs 2:17Which forsaketh the alluf (companion, husband) of her youth, 1 and forgetteth the brit (covenant) of her G-d. 1

Proverbs 5:20And why wilt thou, beni (my son), be intoxicated with a zarah (strange woman), 1 and embrace the kheyk (bosom) of a nochriyah (foreign [heathen] woman)? 1

Ecclesiastes 9:9Live joyfully with the isha whom thou lovest all the days of thy chayyei hevel, which he hath given thee under the shemesh, all the days of thy hevel; for that is thy chelek in this life, and in thy amal (toil) which thou laborest under the shemesh.

Isaiah 54:6For Hashem hath called thee back, 1 thou who art like an isha forsaken and atzuvat ruach (grieved in spirit) 1 as a cast off eshet ne'urim (wife of oneʼs youth), 1 saith thy G-d. 1

Matthew Henry on Malachi 2:11-17

Unlawful Marriages; Breach of the Marriage-covenant; Charge of Corrupt Principles. ( b. c. 400.) 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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