Numbers 29:17

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Numbers 29:17

And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

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And you shall offer a burnt offering, a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD, thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;

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.

Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

This will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hoofs.

"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.

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.

For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place,