1 This is the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel through Malachi: 2 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you ask, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet Jacob I have loved,
Malachi 1:1–2
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