- 众祭司阿,这诫命是传给你们的。
- 万军之耶和华说,你们若不听从,也不放在心上,将荣耀归与我的名,我就使咒诅临到你们,使你们的福分变为咒诅。因你们不把诫命放在心上,我已经咒诅你们了。
- 我必斥责你们的种子,又把你们牺牲的粪,抹你们的脸上。你们要与粪一同除掉。
- 你们就知道我传这诫命给你们,使我与利未(或作利未人)所立的约,可以常存。这是万军之耶和华说的。
- 我曾与他立生命和平安的约。我将这两样赐给他,使他存敬畏的心,他就敬畏我,惧怕我的名。
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- "And now this commandment is for you, O priests.
- "If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name," says the LORD 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 taking it to heart.
- "Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
- "Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi," says the LORD of hosts.
- "My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as an object of reverence; so he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.
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