Malachi 2:1

Literal Standard Version

"And now, to you [is] this charge, 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.

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

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, to you [is] this charge, O priests,²If you do not listen, and if you do not lay [it] to heart, || To give glory to My Name," said YHWH of Hosts, || "I have sent the curse against you, || And I have cursed your blessings, || Indeed, I have also cursed it, || Because you are not laying [it] to heart. ³Behold, I am pushing away the seed before you, || And have scattered dung before your faces, || Dung of your festivals, || And it has taken you away with it. ⁴And you have known that I have sent this charge to you, || For My covenant being with Levi," said YHWH of Hosts. ⁵"My covenant has been of life and of peace with him, || And I make them a fear to him, and he fears Me, || And because of My Name he has been frightened. ⁶The law of truth has been in his mouth, || And perverseness has not been found in his lips, || In peace and in uprightness he walked with Me, || And he brought back many from iniquity. ⁷For the lips of a priest preserve knowledge, || And they seek law from his mouth, || For he [is] a messenger of YHWH of Hosts. ⁸And you, you have turned from the way, || You have caused many to stumble in the Law, || You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," said YHWH of Hosts. ⁹"And I also, I have made you despised and low before all the people, || Because you are not keeping My ways, || And are accepting by superficial things 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 heavens and the earth,

Genesis 1:10
And God calls the dry land "Earth," and the collection of the waters He has called "Seas"; and God sees that [it is] good.

Genesis 2:3
And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making.

Genesis 2:4
These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God's making the earth and the heavens;

Genesis 2:5
and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouts, for YHWH God has not rained on the earth, and there is not a man to serve the ground,

Genesis 2:8
And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;

Genesis 2:11
the name of the first [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Havilah where the gold [is],

Genesis 2:13
and the name of the second river [is] Gihon, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;

Exodus 20:11
for [in] six days YHWH has made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that [is] in them, and rests in the seventh day; therefore YHWH has blessed the Sabbath day and sanctifies it.

Exodus 31:17
it [is] a sign between Me and the sons of Israel for all time; for [in] six days YHWH made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day He has ceased and is 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