Priests are further reprehended because they discharged not well their great office. 10. Both they and others offended in marrying strangers. 14. They ought to love, and not lightly dismiss their wives.Priestes are further reprehended because they discharged not wel their great office. 10. Both they and others offended in marying strangers. 14. They ought to loue, and not lightly dismisse their wiues.✦
And now to you this commandment, O ye priests.AND now to you this commandment a ô ye priests.✦Et nunc ad vos mandatum hoc, o sacerdotes.
2If you will not hear, and if you will not set it upon the heart, to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of exercituum: armies, not guests: I will send upon you poverty, and will curse your blessings, and I will curse them: because you have not set it upon the heart.If you wil not heare, and if you wil not set it vpon the hart, to geue glorie to my name, sayth the Lord of hosts: I b wil send vpon you pouertie, & wil curse your blessings, and I wil curse them: because you haue not set it vpon the hart.✦Si nolueritis audire, et si nolueritis ponere super cor, ut detis gloriam nomini meo, ait Dominus exercituum, mittam in vos egestatem, et maledicam benedictionibus vestris, et maledicam illis, quoniam non posuistis super cor.
3Behold I will cast forth to you the arm, and will sprinkle upon your face the dung of your solemnitatum: solemn feasts, and it shall take you with it.Behold I wil cast forth to you the arme, and wil spinkle vpon your face the dung of your solemnities, and it shal take you with it.✦Ecce ego projiciam vobis brachium, et dispergam super vultum vestrum stercus solemnitatum vestrarum, et assumet vos secum.
4And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.And you shal know that I sent you this commandment, that my couenant might be with Leui, sayth the Lord of hosts.✦Et scietis quia misi ad vos mandatum istud, ut esset pactum meum cum Levi, dicit Dominus exercituum.
5My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear: and he feared me, and at the face of my name he was afraid.My couenant was with him of life and peace : & I gaue him feare : and he feared me, and at the face of my name he was afrayd.✦Pactum meum fuit cum eo vitæ et pacis : et dedi ei timorem, et timuit me, et a facie nominis mei pavebat.
6The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips in peace, and in equity he walked with me, and turned away many from iniquity.The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquitie was not found in his lippes in peace, and in equitie he walked with me, and turned away manie from iniquitie.✦Lex veritatis fuit in ore ejus, et iniquitas non est inventa in labiis ejus : in pace et in æquitate ambulavit mecum, et multos avertit ab iniquitate.
7For the lips of the priest shall keep knowledge, and the law they shall require of his mouth: because he is the angel of the Lord of hosts.For c the lippes of the priest shal keepe knowlege, and the law they shal require of his mouth: because he is d the angel of the Lord of hosts.✦Labia enim sacerdotis custodient scientiam, et legem requirent ex ore ejus, quia angelus Domini exercituum est.
8But you have departed out of the way, and have scandalized many in the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.But you haue departed out of the way, and haue scandalized manie in the law : you haue made voide the couenant of Leui, sayth the Lord of hosts.✦Vos autem recessistis de via, et scandalizastis plurimos in lege : irritum fecistis pactum Levi, dicit Dominus exercituum.
9For which cause I also have made you contemptible, and base to all peoples, as you have not kept my ways, and have accepted faciem: shown partiality, respect of persons in the law.e For which cause I also haue made you contemtible, and base to al peoples, as you haue not kept my wayes, and haue accepted face in the law.✦Propter quod et ego dedi vos contemptibiles, et humiles omnibus populis, sicut non servastis vias meas, et accepistis faciem in lege.
10Why, is there not one father of us all? hath not one God created us? why then doth every one of us despise his brother, violating the covenant of our fathers?Why, is there not one father of vs al ? hath not one God created vs ? why then doth euerie one of vs despise his brother, violating the couenant of our fathers?✦Numquid non pater unus omnium nostrum ? numquid non Deus unus creavit nos ? quare ergo despicit unusquisque nostrum fratrem suum, violans pactum patrum nostrorum ?
11Juda hath transgressed, and abomination was done in Israel, and in Jerusalem: because Judas hath contaminated the sanctificationem: the holy thing, the sanctuary consecrated to God, not the process of being made holy of our Lord, which he loved, and hath had the daughter of a strange god.Iuda hath transgressed, and abomination was done in Israel, and in Ierusalem : because Iudas hath contaminated the sanctification of our Lord, which he loued, and hath had the daughter of a strange god.✦Transgressus est Juda, et abominatio facta est in Israël et in Jerusalem, quia contaminavit Juda sanctificationem Domini, quam dilexit, et habuit filiam dei alieni.
12Our Lord will destroy the man, that hath done this, the master, and the discipulum: pupil, disciple out of the tabernacles of Jacob, and him that offereth gift to the Lord of hosts.Our Lord wil destroy the man, that hath done this, the master, & the scholar out of the tabernacles of Iacob, & him that offereth gift to the Lord of hosts.✦Disperdet Dominus virum qui fecerit hoc, magistrum et discipulum, de tabernaculis Jacob, et offerentem munus Domino exercituum.
13And this again have you done, you covered the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping, and howling, so that I have respect no more to sacrifice, neither do I accept any placabile: acceptable, propitiatory, that appeases God, not "easily appeased" thing at your hand.And this agayne haue you done, you couered the altar of the Lord with teares, with weeping, and howling, so that I haue respect no more to sacrifice, neither do I accept any placable thing at your hand.✦Et hoc rursum fecistis : operiebatis lacrimis altare Domini, fletu et mugitu, ita ut non respiciam ultra ad sacrificium, nec accipiam placabile quid de manu vestra.
14And you have said: For what cause? because the Lord hath testified between thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: and she thy particeps: partner, consort, and the wife of thy covenant.And you haue sayd : For what cause? because the Lord hath testified betwen thee, and the wife of thy youth, whom thou hast despised: and she thy partaker, and the wife of thy couenant.✦Et dixistis : Quam ob causam ? Quia Dominus testificatus est inter te et uxorem pubertatis tuæ, quam tu despexisti : et hæc particeps tua, et uxor fœderis tui.
15Did not one make, and the residue of the spirit is his? And what doth one seek, but the seed of God? Keep ye then your spirit, and the wife of thy youth despise thou not.Did not one make, and the residue of the spirit is his ? And what doth one seeke, but the seede of God ? Keepe ye then your spirit, and the wife of thy youth despise thou not.✦Nonne unus fecit, et residuum spiritus ejus est ? et quid unus quærit, nisi semen Dei ? custodite ergo spiritum vestrum, et uxorem adolescentiæ tuæ noli despicere.
16When thou shalt hate, dimitte: put away, divorce, saith our Lord the God of Israel: but iniquity shall cover his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, keep ye your spirit, and do not despise.When thou shalt hate, dismisse, sayth our Lord the God of Israel : but iniquitie shal couer his garment, saith the Lord of hosts, keepe ye your spirit, and do not despise.✦Cum odio habueris, dimitte, dicit Dominus Deus Israël : operiet autem iniquitas vestimentum ejus, dicit Dominus exercituum. Custodite spiritum vestrum, et nolite despicere.
17You have in your words made our Lord to laborare: to weary, make to toil, and you said: Wherein have we made him to labour? In that you say: Every one that doth evil, is good in the sight of our Lord, and such please him: or certe: certainly, surely where is the God of judgment?You haue in your wordes made our Lord to labour : and you sayd : Wherein haue we made him to labour? In that you say: Euerie one that doth euil, is good in the sight of our Lord, and such please him : or certes where is the God of iudgement?✦Laborare fecistis Dominum in sermonibus vestris, et dixistis : In quo eum fecimus laborare ? In eo quod dicitis : Omnis qui facit malum bonus est in conspectu Domini, et tales ei placent : aut certe ubi est Deus judicii ?
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.