[2] [back to 5:7] A talent is a weight of about 34 kilograms or 75 pounds.
[3] [back to 12:10] After "me," the Hebrew has the two letters "Aleph Tav" (the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet), not as a word, but as a grammatical marker.
Malachi
[1:1] An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
[1:2] "I have loved you," says Yahweh.
Yet you say, "How have you loved us?"
"Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob; [1:3] but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness." [1:4] Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Armies, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."