Malachi 2:3 
Context| NET © | I am about to discipline your children 1 and will spread offal 2 on your faces, 3 the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it. |
| NIV © | "Because of you I will rebuke your descendants; I will spread on your faces the offal from your festival sacrifices, and you will be carried off with it. |
| NASB © | "Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. |
| NLT © | I will rebuke your descendants and splatter your faces with the dung of your festival sacrifices, and I will add you to the dung heap. |
| MSG © | Yes, and the curse will extend to your children. I'm going to plaster your faces with rotting garbage, garbage thrown out from your feasts. That's what you have to look forward to! |
| BBE © | See, I will have your arm cut off, and will put waste on your faces, even the waste from your feasts; and you will be taken away with it. |
| NRSV © | I will rebuke your offspring, and spread dung on your faces, the dung of your offerings, and I will put you out of my presence. |
| NKJV © | "Behold, I will rebuke your descendants And spread refuse on your faces, The refuse of your solemn feasts; And one will take you away with it. |
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| NET © | I am about to discipline your children 1 and will spread offal 2 on your faces, 3 the very offal produced at your festivals, and you will be carried away along with it. |
| NET © Notes |
1 tc The phrase “discipline your children” is disputed. The LXX and Vulgate suppose זְרוֹעַ (zÿroa’, “arm”) for the MT זֶרַע (zera’, “seed”; hence, “children”). Then, for the MT גֹעֵר (go’er, “rebuking”) the same versions suggest גָּרַע (gara’, “take away”). The resulting translation is “I am about to take away your arm” (cf. NAB “deprive you of the shoulder”). However, this reading is unlikely. It is common for a curse (v. 2) to fall on offspring (see, e.g., Deut 28:18, 32, 41, 53, 55, 57), but a curse never takes the form of a broken or amputated arm. It is preferable to retain the reading of the MT here. 2 tn The Hebrew term פֶרֶשׁ (feresh, “offal”) refers to the entrails as ripped out in preparing a sacrificial victim (BDB 831 s.v. פֶּרֶשׁ). This graphic term has been variously translated: “dung” (KJV, RSV, NRSV, NLT); “refuse” (NKJV, NASB); “offal” (NEB, NIV). 3 sn See Zech 3:3-4 for similar coarse imagery which reflects cultic disqualification. |
