For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he said, “Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body have you prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure.
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
And Samuel said, “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination; how much more when he brings it with evil intent.
“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. “When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations— I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them. When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
“I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them. Take away from me the noise of your songs; to the melody of your harps I will not listen.
“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. You shall call to them, but they will not answer you.
But the person who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native or a sojourner, reviles the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from among his people. Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person shall be utterly cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.”
“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
“If one person sins unintentionally, he shall offer a female goat a year old for a sin offering.
But if a man willfully attacks another to kill him by cunning, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.
Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death.
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