Polluted] i.e. not actually unclean, but worthless, common: cp. Ezra 2:62. Bread] sacrificial offerings generally: cp. Leviticus 21:6. Table] the altar, not merely the table of shewbread.

8. Cp. Deuteronomy 15:21; Deuteronomy 17:1; Leviticus 22:20. Blind.. lame.. sick] i.e. animals unlawful for sacrifice.

It is not evil?] RV 'it is no evil!'

Governor] Heb. Peha. The term is applied to Zerubbabel (Haggai 1:1; Haggai 1:4). It is impossible to say whether Malachi has a Jewish or Persian governor in view. Accept thy person] more correctly, 'favour thee.'

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