OLD TESTAMENT

Malachi 3:8

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Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings.

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Verse 8. Afflict. Lit. “pierce.” Septuagint “supplant,” ( Bible.) or kick at. 1 Kennicott. 2:29. But the term applied to Heli is different. Here it signifies to nail or irritate. Calmet.—Tithes: the payment is most strictly commanded. Worthington.

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