Malachi 2:1

King James Version

And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
"Priests, this rule is for you.

New American Standard Bible
"And now, this commandment is for you, the priests.

New Century Version
"Priests, this command is for you.

Update Bible Version
And now, O you priests, this commandment is for you.

Webster's Bible Translation
And now, O ye priests, this commandment [is] for you.

Amplified Bible
"Now, O priests, this commandment is for you.

English Standard Version
"And now, O priests, this command is for you.

World English Bible
"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now, A! ye preestis, this maundement is to you.

English Revised Version
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Berean Standard Bible
And now this decree is for you, O priests:

Contemporary English Version
I, the Lord All-Powerful, have something else to say to you priests.

American Standard Version
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you.

Bible in Basic English
And now, O you priests, this order is for you.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Now, cohanim, this command is for you.

Darby Translation
And now, ye priests, this commandment is for you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And now, this commandment is for you, O ye priests.

King James Version (1611)
And now, O yee Priests, this commaundement is for you.

New Living Translation
"Listen, you priests—this command is for you!

New Life Bible
"And now, this word is for you, O religious leaders.

New Revised Standard
And now, O priests, this command is for you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And now, O ye Priests, this commandement is for you.

George Lamsa Translation
NOW therefore, O priests, this commandment is for you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, for you, is this charge, O ye priests: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now, O ye priests, this commandment is to you.

Revised Standard Version
"And now, O priests, this command is for you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And now O ye priestes this comaundement is for you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now, O priests, this commandment is to you.

Good News Translation
The Lord Almighty says to the priests, "This command is for you:

Christian Standard Bible®
“Therefore, this decree is for you priests:

Hebrew Names Version
"Now, you Kohanim, this mitzvah is for you.

Lexham English Bible
"And so then, O priests, this command is for you:

Literal Translation
And now, O priests, this command is to you.

Young's Literal Translation
And now, to you [is] this charge, O priests,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And now (o ye prestes) this commaundement toucheth you:

THE MESSAGE
"And now this indictment, you priests! If you refuse to obediently listen, and if you refuse to honor me, God -of-the-Angel-Armies, in worship, then I'll put you under a curse. I'll exchange all your blessings for curses. In fact, the curses are already at work because you're not serious about honoring me. Yes, and the curse will extend to your children. I'm going to plaster your faces with rotting garbage, garbage thrown out from your feasts. That's what you have to look forward to!

New English Translation
"Now, you priests, this commandment is for you.

New King James Version
"And now, O priests, this commandment is for you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Legacy Standard Bible
"And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Contextual Overview

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; and one shall take you away with it. ⁴ And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Malachi 1:6, Jeremiah 13:13, Lamentations 4:13, Hosea 5:1

Reciprocal: Leviticus 21:1 - Speak Leviticus 21:24 - Aaron 1 Samuel 2:12 - the sons Ezekiel 22:26 - priests Ezekiel 34:7 - General Hosea 4:6 - I will also reject Hosea 4:10 - they shall eat Malachi 3:3 - the sons

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 2:3
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Genesis 2:5
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Genesis 2:8
And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.

Exodus 20:11
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And now, O ye priests,.... That despised and profaned the name of the Lord; that suffered such corrupt and illegal sacrifices to be brought and offered up:

this commandment [is] for you: of giving glory to the name of God; of taking care of his worship; of teaching the people knowledge, and directing them in the way in which they should walk; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And now this is My commandment unto you - , not a commandment, which He gave them, but a commandment in regard to them. As God said of old, upon obedience , “I will command My blessing unto you,” so now He would command what should reach them, but a curse. “He returns from the people to the priests, as the fountain of the evil, whose carelessness about things sacred he had rebuked before. Let the priests of the new law hear this rebuke of God, and conceive it dictated to them by the Holy Spirit to hear, from whom God rightly requires greater holiness, and so will punish them more grievously, if careless or scandalous in their office.” All Christians are, in some sense 1 Peter 2:9, “a royal, holy priesthood,” over and above the special “Christian priesthood;” as the Jews, over and above the special priesthood of Aaron, were a Exodus 19:6, “kingdom of priests.” What follows then belongs, in their degree, to them and their duties.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER II

The priests reproved for their unfaithfulness in their office,

for which they are threatened to be deprived of their share of

the sacrifice, (the shoulder,) and rewarded only with ignominy

and ordure, 1-3.

The degeneracy of the order is then complained of, and they are

again threatened, 4-9.

The rest of the chapter reproves the people for marrying

strange and idolatrous women; and multiplying divorces, with

all their consequent distress, in order to make way for such

illicit alliances, 10-17.

See Nehemiah 10:30; Nehemiah 13:27-30, &c.

NOTES ON CHAP. II