Jeremiah 7:22

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Summary

For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

Nor

Mark 12:33

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Bible References

Nor

And Samuel said, Has Jehovah delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices, As in hearkening to the voice of Jehovah? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, Attention than the fat of rams.

Sacrifice and oblation thou didst not desire: ears hast thou prepared me. Burnt-offering and sin-offering hast thou not demanded;

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering.

For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

But go and learn what that is I will have mercy and not sacrifice; for I have not come to call righteous men but sinners.

and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the burnt-offerings and sacrifices.

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one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering;

And on the second day, ye shall present twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;

I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt-offerings, continually before me;

To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.