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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bringing these burnt offerings made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: Thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without any defects,

You take no delight in sacrifices and offerings you have prepared my ears to listen you require no burnt offerings or sacrifices for sin.

I do not rebuke you because of your sacrifices; indeed, your burnt offerings are continuously before me.

Indeed, you do not delight in sacrifices, or I would give them, nor do you desire burnt offerings.

That will please the LORD more than oxen and bulls with horns and hooves.

"How do your voluminous sacrifices benefit me?" the LORD is asking. "I've had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don't enjoy the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

"Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat the meat. Indeed, when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn't speak or command them about burnt offering and sacrifice,

For it is love that I seek, and not sacrifice; knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

I therefore urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercies, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices that are holy and pleasing to God, for this is the reasonable way for you to worship.

In speaking of a "new" covenant, he has made the first one obsolete, and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

Behind the second curtain was the part of the tent called the Most Holy Place,