1“Now, you priests, this commandment is for you. 2If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name,” says Yahuah of Hosts, “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart. 3Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. 4You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi,” says Yahuah of Hosts. 5“My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might be reverent toward me; and he was reverent toward me, and stood in awe of my name.” “ 6The Torah of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity. 7For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the Torah at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahuah of Hosts. 8But you have turned away from the path. You have caused many to stumble in the Torah. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi,” says Yahuah of Hosts. 9“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the Torah. 10Don’t we all have one father? Hasn’t one Elohim created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, profaning the covenant of our fathers?” “ 11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahuah which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god. 12Yahuah will cut off the man who does this, him who wakes and him who answers, out of the tents of Jacob and him who offers an offering to Yahuah of Hosts. 13“This again you do: you cover Yahuah’s altar with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, because he doesn’t regard the offering any more, neither receives it with good will at your hand. 14Yet you say, ‘Why?’ Because Yahuah has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion and the wife of your covenant. 15Did he not make you one, although he had the residue of the Spirit? Why one? He sought godly offspring. Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let no one deal treacherously against the wife of his youth.” “ 16One who hates and divorces”, says Yahuah, Elohim of Israel, “covers his garment with violence!” says Yahuah of Hosts. “Therefore pay attention to your spirit, that you don’t be unfaithful. 17You have wearied Yahuah with your words. Yet you say, ‘How have we wearied him?’ In that you say, ‘Everyone who does evil is good in Yahuah’s sight, and he delights in them;’ or ‘Where is Elohim of justice?’