39:002:004 And ye shall know that I have sent this
commandment unto you,
that
my covenant might be with Levi, saith the lord
of hosts.
39:002:005 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.
39:002:006 The law of truth was in his mouth, and
iniquity was not found
in
his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity,
and did
turn
many away from iniquity.
39:002:007 For the priest’s lips should keep
knowledge, and they should
seek
the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger
of the lord
of
hosts.
39:002:008 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.
39:002:009 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.
39:002:010 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?
39:002:011 Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an
abomination is
committed
in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned
the
holiness of the lord which he loved, and hath
married the
daughter
of a strange god.
39:002:012 The lord will cut off the man that
doeth this, the master and
the
scholar, out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that
offereth
an offering unto the lord of hosts.
39:002:013 And this have ye done again, covering the
altar of the lord
with
tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch
that
he
regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it
with
good
will at your hand.
39:002:014 Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the
lord hath been witness
between
thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast
dealt
treacherously: yet is she thy companion, and the
wife of
thy
covenant.
39:002:015 And did not he make one? Yet had he
the residue of the spirit.
And
wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed.
Therefore
take
heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously
against
the wife of his youth.
39:002:016 For the lord, the God of Israel, saith
that he hateth putting
away:
for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the
lord
of hosts: therefore take heed to your spirit,
that ye
deal
not treacherously.


