Malachi 2:9

2:9 “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your ¹  instruction.”

Malachi 3:7

3:7 From the days of your ancestors you have ignored ²  my commandments ³  and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’

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¹ tn Heb “in the instruction” (so NASB). The Hebrew article is used here as a possessive pronoun (cf. NRSV, NLT).

² tn Heb “turned aside from.”

³ tn Or “statutes” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “decrees”; NLT “laws.”