Malachi 1:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘When you present a blind animal for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present a lame or sick animal, is it not wrong?  Bring it to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favour? ’ asks the Lord of Armies.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 15:21

But if there is a defect in the animal, if it is lame or blind or has any serious defect, you may not sacrifice it to the Lord your God.

Hosea 8:13

Though they offer sacrificial gifts  , and eat the flesh, the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their guilt and punish their sins; they will return to Egypt.

Jeremiah 14:10

This is what the Lord says concerning these people: Truly they love to wander; they never rest their feet. So the Lord does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.

Job 42:8

Now take seven bulls and seven rams, go to my servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. Then my servant Job will pray for you.  I will surely accept his prayer and not deal with you as your folly deserves. For you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.’

Malachi 1:10

‘I wish one of you would shut the temple doors,  so that you would no longer kindle a useless fire on my altar!  I am not pleased with you,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and I will accept  no offering from your hands.

Haggai 1:1

In the second year of King Darius,  , on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet  Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,  the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

Malachi 1:7

‘By presenting defiled food on my altar.’ ‘How have we defiled you? ’ you ask. When you say, ‘The Lord’s table is contemptible.’