Malachi 2:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ My covenant with him was a covenant of life and well-being, which I gave him; this called for reverence, and he revered me and stood in awe of my name.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ My covenant [on My part with Levi] was to give him life and peace, because [on his part] of the [reverent and worshipful] fear with which [the priests] would revere Me and stand in awe of My name.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.

Common English Bible

⁵ My covenant with him involved life and peace, which I gave him, and also fear so that he honored me. He was in awe of my name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ My covenant was with him for life and peace. And I gave him fear, and he feared me, and he was afraid before the face of my name.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ My covenant was with him of life and peace: and I gave him fear: and he feared me, and he was afraid before my name.

Malachi 2:5 Cross References

Psalm 61:5

For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given me the heritage of those who fear your name.

Proverbs 14:2

Those who walk uprightly fear the Lord, but one who is devious in conduct despises him.

Ezekiel 34:25

I will make with them a covenant of peace and banish wild animals from the land, so that they may live in the wild and sleep in the woods securely.

Ezekiel 37:26

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them, and I will bless them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary among them forevermore.

Numbers 25:7

When Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he got up and left the congregation. Taking a spear in his hand,

Numbers 25:8

he went after the Israelite man into the tent and pierced the two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the plague was stopped among the Israelites.

Numbers 3:45

“Take the Levites as substitutes for all the firstborn among the Israelites and the livestock of the Levites as substitutes for their livestock, and the Levites shall be mine. I am the Lord.

Numbers 8:15

Thereafter the Levites may go in to do service at the tent of meeting, once you have cleansed them and presented them as an elevation offering.