Malachichapter 2
17 verses · Malachi · 460 to 430 BC · The Twelve
Original Language
Malachi 2— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
In Jewish life
Jewish practice and Jewish teaching both have something to say about Malachi 2. Three things follow: where it is read, what is done because of it, and how the rabbis have taught it. The purpose is to inform a Christian reader what Jews believe and how Judaism was and is practised.
The reading
Read here as the Haftarah
- Malachi 1:1 to 2:7, with the portion Toldot (Genesis 25:19 to 28:9).
The verse numbers here are the ones a Hebrew Bible carries, which differ from an English Bible by a verse or two in several places. The Sephardi reading is named only where this site records a difference; communities vary beyond what is listed. What these books are, and how a Christian reader meets them →
Where the rabbis cite this chapter
4 rows sit beside their verses in the text, on 4 verses of this chapter. No row that speaks to the chapter as a whole is recorded. Every quote links to its full source.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria (sefaria.org); excerpts follow each version’s license, and every passage opens at its source.
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
The covenant with Levi: life and peace, now despised1
Malachi 2:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Malachi 2:1
to you, etc., O priests I charge you with this commandment, that you shall not sacrifice these on My altar.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Malachi 2:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:8· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:9· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Judah married the daughter of a foreign god10
Malachi 2:10· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Malachi 2:10
to profane the covenant of our forefathers The covenant that the Holy One, blessed be He, formed with our forefathers at Sinai.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Malachi 2:11· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Malachi 2:11
for Judah has profaned himself, who was the holy one of the Lord, the first of His grain.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Malachi 2:12· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Malachi 2:12
one of acuity or erudition An ingenious one among the students, and one who can answer among the sages. עֵר An expression of an ingenious person.
Read it in full at Sefaria · The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg
Tears on the altar: the LORD hates putting away13
Malachi 2:13· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:14· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:15· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:16· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Malachi 2:17· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible