Malachi 2:1

Legacy Standard Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good News Translation
The Lord Almighty says to the priests, "This command 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

Contextual Overview

¹"And now this commandment is for you, O priests. ²If you do not listen, and if you do not set it upon your heart to give honor to My name," says Yahweh of hosts, "then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already because you are not setting it upon your heart. ³Behold, I am going to rebuke your seed, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. ⁴Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi," says Yahweh of hosts. ⁵"My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as something to be feared; so he feared Me and stood in awe of My name. ⁶Instruction of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity. ⁷For the lips of a priest should keep knowledge, and men should seek instruction from his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts. ⁸But as for you, you have turned aside from the way; you have caused many to stumble by the instruction; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts. ⁹"So I also have made you despised and low before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

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 heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 2:3
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created in making it.

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

Genesis 2:5
Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet grown, for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

Genesis 2:8
And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that went around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Genesis 2:13
And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that went around the whole land of Cush.

Exodus 20:11
For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

Exodus 31:17
It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, but 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