Malachi 2:4
Good News Translation
Then you will know that I have given you this command, so that my covenant with the priests, the descendants of Levi, will not be broken.

New Revised Standard Version
Know, then, that I have sent this command to you, that my covenant with Levi may hold, says the LORD of hosts.

Contemporary English Version
I am telling you this, so I can continue to keep my agreement with your ancestor Levi.

New American Bible
You should know that I sent you this commandment so that my covenant with Levi might endure, says the LORD of hosts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

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1 Kings 22:25 And Micheas said: Thou shalt see in the day when thou shalt go into a chamber within a chamber to hide thyself.

Isaiah 26:11 Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.

Jeremiah 28:9 The prophet that prophesied peace: when his word shall come to pass, the prophet shall be known, whom the hath sent in truth.

Ezekiel 33:33 And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, for behold it is coming, then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.

Ezekiel 38:23 And I will be magnified, and I will be sanctified: and I will be known in the eyes of many nations and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Luke 10:11 Even the very dust of your city that cleaveth to us, we wipe off against you. Yet know this, that the kingdom of God is at hand.

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Isaiah 1:24-28 Therefore saith the Lord the God of hosts, the mighty one of Israel: Ah! I will comfort myself over my adversaries: and I will be revenged of my enemies. . . .

Isaiah 27:9 Therefore upon this shall the iniquity of the house of Jacob be forgiven: and this is all the fruit, that the sin thereof should be taken away, when he shall have made all the stones of the altar, as burnt stones broken in pieces, the groves and temples shall not stand.

Ezekiel 20:38-41 And I will pick out from among you the transgressors, and the wicked, and will bring them out of the land where they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and you shall know that I am the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 44:9-16 Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, no stranger that is in the midst of the children of Israel. . . .

Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

John 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Context
A Warning to Priests
3Behold, I will cast the shoulder to you, and will scatter upon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shall take you away with it. 4And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.5My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear: and he feared me, and he was afraid before my name.…
Cross References
Numbers 3:11
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Numbers 3:45
Take the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for their cattle, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

Numbers 18:21
And I have given to the sons of Levi all the tithes of Israel for a possession, for the ministry wherewith they serve me in the tabernacle of the covenant:

Nehemiah 13:29
Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Malachi 3:1
Behold I send my angel, and he shall prepare the way before my face. And presently the Lord, whom you seek, and the angel of the testament, whom you desire, shall come to his temple. Behold, he cometh, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:3
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