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Malachi 2:8

But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

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ASV

But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

KJV

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.

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13 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְאַתֶּם֙ve.'a.Temand youH859 →
סַרְתֶּ֣םsar.Temyou have turned asideH5493 →
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הַדֶּ֔רֶךְha.De.rekhthe wayH1870 →
הִכְשַׁלְתֶּ֥םhikh.shal.Temyou have caused to stumbleH3782 →
רַבִּ֖יםra.Bimmany [people]H7227 →
בַּתּוֹרָ֑הba.to.Rahby the instructionH8451 →
שִֽׁחַתֶּם֙shi.cha.Temyou have corruptedH7843 →
בְּרִ֣יתbe.Rit[the] covenant ofH1285 →
הַלֵּוִ֔יha.le.Vi<the> LeviH3878 →
אָמַ֖ר'a.Marhe saysH559 →
יְהוָ֥הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
צְבָאֽוֹת׃tze.va.'otof hostsH6635 →

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Nehemiah 13:29Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’Ezekiel 22:26Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.Psalms 119:126It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”Jeremiah 17:5This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.Jeremiah 18:15Yet My people have forgotten Me. They burn incense to worthless idols that make them stumble in their ways, leaving the ancient roads to walk on rutted bypaths instead of on the highway.Zephaniah 3:4Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law.Psalms 73:15If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.Micah 3:5This is what the LORD says: “As for the prophets who lead My people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:Isaiah 30:11Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”1 Samuel 2:17Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.Malachi 2:5“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, which I gave to him; it called for reverence, and he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.Ezekiel 44:10Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who wandered away from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their iniquity.Malachi 2:9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”Malachi 2:10Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?Psalms 18:21For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.Jeremiah 23:11–15“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.

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