Malachi 3:7–9

ROBBING GOD

7 “Since the days of your ancestors, you have turned from my statutes; you have not kept them.aq Return to me,ar and I will return to you,”as says the Lord of Armies.

Yet you ask, “How can we return?”

8 “Will a man robat God? Yet you are robbing me!”

“How do we rob you?” you ask.

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.au 9 You are suffering under a curse, yetE you—the whole nation—are still robbing me.

aq	Jos 1:7 Jos 23:6 1 Ki 8:58 2 Ki 17:15 Ezr 9:7 Am 2:4 Mal 2:8
ar	Dt 4:30 Dt 30:2 2 Ch 30:6 2 Ch 30:9 Is 55:7 Joe 2:13 Zec 1:3
as	1 Ki 8:33 Je 15:19 Je 24:7
at	Pr 22:22–23
au	Le 7:14 Le 7:32–33 Le 27:30–32 Nu 18:8–24 Dt 12:5–19 Dt 14:22–29 Dt 26:12
E	Or because