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The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel by Mal′achi.[a]

Israel Preferred to Edom

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How hast thou loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau; I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 1:1 Or my messenger

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