1 And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. 2 If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, said the LORD of the hosts, I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already because ye do not lay it to heart. 3 Behold, I reprehend your seed and spread the dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemnities; and ye shall be removed with it. 4 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, said the LORD of the hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him for the fear with which he feared me and was broken before my name. 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and righteousness and turned many away from iniquity. 7 For the priest’s lips keep wisdom, and they seek the law at his mouth; for he is an angel of the LORD of the hosts. 8 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, said the LORD of the hosts. 9 Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.