jSee Joel 2:15-17
Psalms 50:8-9
8Not for your sacrifices ado I rebuke you;your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9I will not accept a bull from your house
or goats from your folds.
Psalms 51:16-17
16 bFor you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17The sacrifices of God are ca broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Proverbs 21:3
3 dTo do righteousness and justiceis more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11-17
11 e“What to me is the multitude of your sacrifices?says the Lord;
I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
and the fat of well-fed beasts;
I do not delight in the blood of bulls,
or of lambs, or of goats.
12 “When you come to fappear before me,
who has required of you
this trampling of my courts?
13Bring no more vain offerings;
incense is an abomination to me.
gNew moon and Sabbath and the hcalling of convocations—
I cannot endure iiniquity and jsolemn assembly.
14Your knew moons and your appointed feasts
my soul hates;
they have become a burden to me;
I am weary of bearing them.
15When you lspread out your hands,
I will hide my eyes from you;
meven though you make many prayers,
I will not listen;
nyour hands are full of blood.
16 oWash yourselves; make yourselves clean;
remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes;
pcease to do evil,
17learn to do good;
qseek justice,
correct oppression;
rbring justice to the fatherless,
plead the widow’s cause.
Jeremiah 7:22-23
22For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them sconcerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 23But this command I gave them: t‘Obey my voice, and uI will be your God, and you shall be my people. vAnd walk in all the way that I command you, wthat it may be well with you.’Hosea 6:6
6For xI desire steadfast love ▼▼Septuagint mercy
and not sacrifice,zthe knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
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