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Malachi is included in a list of scribal changes known as “tiqqune soferim,” where editors changed disrespectful language. The Masoretic text describes the priests complaining and ignoring their duties, but the original described them cursing God.
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Malachi 1:13
Hebrew Bible
12 “But you are profaning it by saying that the table of the Lord is common and its offerings despicable. 13 You also say, ‘How tiresome it is.’ You turn up your nose at it,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and instead bring what is stolen, lame, or sick. You bring these things for an offering! Should I accept this from you?” asks the Lord. 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
LXX Malachi 1:13
Septuagint
12 But you profane it, in that you say, The table of the Lord is polluted, and his food set on it is despised. 13 And you said, These services are troublesome: and I have blown them away, says the Lord Almighty: and you brought in torn victims, and lame, and sick: if then you should bring an offering, shall I accept them at your hands? says the Lord Almighty. 14 And cursed is the man who had the power, and possessed a male in his flock, and whose vow is upon him, and who sacrifices a corrupt thing to the Lord: for I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and my name is glorious among the nations.
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Notes and References
"... The tiqqune sopherim, or emendations of the scribes, represents another way some ancient writers responded to specific portrayals of God they felt were inappropriate. At specific places, it appears that scribes altered the Hebrew text of the Old Testament to modify views of God they found offensive. These modifications are thought to have been made between 400 BCE and 100 CE. Although it is unclear exactly how many changes of this nature were made, tradition puts the total at eighteen (Genesis 18:22; Numbers 11:15; 12:12; 1 Samuel 3:13; 2 Samuel 16:12; 20:1; 1 Kings 12:16; 2 Chronicles 10:16; Job 7:20; 32:3; Psalm 106:20; Jeremiah 2:11; Lamentations 3:20; Ezekiel 8:17; Hosea 4:7; Zechariah 2:8; Habakkuk 1:12; Malachi 1:13) ..."
Seibert, Eric A.
Disturbing Divine Behavior: Troubling Old Testament Images of God
(p. 56) Fortress Press, 2009
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