Malachi 1:12

“But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings ¹  despicable.

Nu 11:4-8; 2Sa 12:14; Eze 36:21-23; Da 5:3,4; Am 2:7; Mal 1:6,8; Mal 1:7,13; Mal 2:8; Ro 2:24

¹ tn Heb “fruit.” The following word “food” in the Hebrew text (אָכְלוֹ, ’okhlo) appears to be an explanatory gloss to clarify the meaning of the rare word נִיב (niv, “fruit”; see Isa 57:19 Qere; נוֹב, nov, “fruit,” in Kethib). Cf. ASV “the fruit thereof, even its food.” In this cultic context the reference is to the offerings on the altar.