Malachi 2:15

And 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And did not he make one? Yet had he the residue of the spirit. And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.

In Context

14Yet 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

16For Hashem Elohei Yisroel saith 1 that He hateth putting away: 1 for it covereth oneʼs garment with chamas (violence), 1 saith the Hashem Tzva'os: 1 therefore, be shomer of your ruach, 1 that ye deal not treacherously, breaking faith. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 2:7And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah, and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a nefesh chayyah.

Genesis 6:2That the bnei HaElohim saw the banot HaAdam that they were tovot; and they took them nashim of all which they chose.

Genesis 24:44And she say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy gemalim; let the same be the isha whom Hashem hath appointed for ben adoni.

Genesis 27:46And Rivkah said to Yitzchak, I am weary of my life because of the Banot Chet: if Ya'akov take an isha of the Banot Chet (Hittite women) such as these which are of the banot ha'aretz, what will chayyim to me be?

Deuteronomy 7:4For they will turn away thy ben from following Me, that they may serve elohim acherim; so will the anger of Hashem be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

Nehemiah 13:24And their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the language of the Yehudim, but according to the language of one people or another.

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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