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Polyglot Bible: Malachi: Malachi 2

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This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Malachi 2:1–17 in four columns: the King James Version (with embedded Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The passage is prophetic oracle literature from the Hebrew Bible, addressed first to priests and then to the people of Judah at large. The text opens with God's rebuke of the priesthood for failing their covenant obligations — specifically contrasting their corruption with the idealized faithfulness of Levi, who "walked in peace and equity" and "turned many away from iniquity." It then pivots to two social sins: intermarriage with foreigners (described as profaning God's holiness) and the abandonment of wives married in youth, which God declares he hates, associating divorce with covering oneself in violence. The passage closes with the charge that the people have morally exhausted God by calling evildoers good and demanding "where is the God of judgment?" The four-column layout serves as a critical apparatus for textual comparison, allowing readers to track translation choices and textual variants across the major ancient witnesses; notably, verse 16's rendering differs markedly between versions (KJV's "he hateth putting away" versus the Septuagint's conditional "if hating, send away"), a crux with significant implications for historical debates about divorce in biblical law.

Polyglot Bible: Malachi: Malachi 2

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