Malachi 2:3-5

English Standard Version

³ Behold, ^(A)I will rebuke your offspring,^[a] and ^(B)spread dung on your faces, the ^(C)dung of your offerings, and you shall be taken away with it.^{[b] 4} So shall you know that I have sent ^(D)this command to you, that ^(E)my covenant with Levi may stand, says the Lord of hosts. ⁵ My covenant with him was one of life and ^(F)peace, and I gave them to him. ^(G)It was a covenant of fear, and he feared me. He stood in awe of my name.