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Since the days of your fathers, you have turned aside from my statutes and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you, says the Lord of Armies.

You say, “In what way should we return?”

Will a man rob God? You are robbing me!

You say, “How have we robbed you?”

In regard to the tithe and the special offering.[a] You are being cursed since all of you, the whole nation, are robbing me.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 3:8 Or the elevated offering

Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away(A) from my decrees and have not kept them. Return(B) to me, and I will return to you,”(C) says the Lord Almighty.

“But you ask,(D) ‘How are we to return?’

“Will a mere mortal rob(E) God? Yet you rob me.

“But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’

“In tithes(F) and offerings. You are under a curse(G)—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

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