Maleakhi 3:7
Konteks3:7 From the days of your ancestors you have ignored 1 my commandments 2 and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’
Maleakhi 3:10
Konteks3:10 “Bring the entire tithe into the storehouse 3 so that there may be food in my temple. Test me in this matter,” says the Lord who rules over all, “to see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing until there is no room for it all.
[3:7] 1 tn Heb “turned aside from.”
[3:7] 2 tn Or “statutes” (so NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “decrees”; NLT “laws.”
[3:10] 3 tn The Hebrew phrase בֵּית הָאוֹצָר (bet ha’otsar, here translated “storehouse”) refers to a kind of temple warehouse described more fully in Nehemiah (where the term לִשְׁכָּה גְדוֹלָה [lishkah gÿdolah, “great chamber”] is used) as a place for storing grain, frankincense, temple vessels, wine, and oil (Neh 13:5). Cf. TEV “to the Temple.”