Malachi 1:7 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the LORD is contemptible.

Close to the original. Clear modern English.

✦ MADE SIMPLE

You're bringing me trashy offerings on my altar, and then you have the nerve to ask 'What did we do wrong?' You did this — you're treating my table like it doesn't matter.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

God calls out the fake worship — don't bring your leftovers and act confused when he's not impressed.

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And they will bring all your fellow believers as an offering to the LORD from every nation—on horses, in chariots, in covered carriages, on mules, and on fast animals—to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the LORD, just like the Israelites bring an offering in a clean container to the LORD's house.

Leviticus 17:4

And does not bring it to the entrance of the meeting tent to offer it as a sacrifice to the LORD in front of the LORD's tent, that person will be held responsible for bloodshed; he has shed blood and must be removed from his people.

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They must not treat as common or ordinary the holy offerings that the people of Israel bring to the LORD.

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