Malachi 2:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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 thou, O God, hast heard my vows: Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name.

Proverbs 14:2

He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the LORD: But he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him.

Ezekiel 34:25

And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

Ezekiel 37:26

Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them: it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

Numbers 25:7

And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from the midst of the congregation, and took a spear in his hand;

Numbers 25:8

and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

Numbers 3:45

Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle: and the Levites shall be mine; I am the LORD.

Numbers 8:15

And after that shall the Levites go in to do the service of the tent of meeting: and thou shalt cleanse them, and offer them for a wave offering.