Malachi 2:3-5

Living Bible

³ “Take note that I will rebuke your children; I will spread on your faces the manure of these animals you offer me and throw you out like dung. ⁴ Then at last you will know it was I who sent you this warning to return to the laws I gave your father Levi,” says the Lord Almighty. ⁵ “The purpose of these laws was to give him life and peace, to be a means of showing his respect and awe for me by keeping them.