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Malachi 2:8

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.

KJV

Vos autem recessistis de via, et scandalizastis plurimos in lege : irritum fecistis pactum Levi, dicit Dominus exercituum.

Vulgate

ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐξεκλίνατε ἐκ τῆς ὁδοῦ καὶ ἠσθενήσατε πολλοὺς ἐν νόμῳ, διεφθείρατε τὴν διαθήκην τοῦ Λευί; λέγει Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ.

LXX

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.

ASV

וְ/אַתֶּם֙ סַרְתֶּ֣ם מִן הַ/דֶּ֔רֶךְ הִכְשַׁלְתֶּ֥ם רַבִּ֖ים בַּ/תּוֹרָ֑ה שִֽׁחַתֶּם֙ בְּרִ֣ית הַ/לֵּוִ֔י אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת

Hebrew

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People LeviLevi

In the original Hebrew

13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
דֶּ֣רֶךְ
drk
noun · 709×
הּ
h
verb · 147×
י
y
noun · 280×
י
y
noun · 221×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִכָּשְׁל֖וּ
ykshlv
verb · 64×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
לֵוִ֖י
lvy
noun · 60×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
סָ֥ר
sr
verb · 301×
צְבָא֖וֹת
tsb'vt
noun · 480×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1540Instituted to proclaim the Word of God and to restore communion with God by sacrifices and prayer,9 this priesthood nevertheless remains powerless to bring about salvation, needing to repeat its sacrifices ceaselessly and being unable to achieve a definitive sanctification, which only the sacrifice of Christ would accomplish.10

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 2:17 — Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering of the LORD.
  • 1Sam 2:30 — Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I
  • Ezek 22:26 — Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, a
  • Ezek 44:10 — And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
  • Isa 30:11 — Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
  • Jer 17:5 — Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
  • Jer 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
  • Jer 18:15 — Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;
  • Mal 1:6 — A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my
  • Mal 2:5 — 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.
  • Mal 2:9 — 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.
  • Mal 2:10 — Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?
  • Matt 15:14 — Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
  • Mic 3:5 — Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
  • Neh 13:29 — Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.
  • Prov 12:8 — A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
  • Ps 73:15 — If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
  • Ps 119:126 — It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
  • Rom 14:21 — It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
  • Zeph 3:4 — Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.