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 ye shall offer in burnt offering, a sacrifice on fire, of an acceptable savour unto the LORD: thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish

Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering thou hast not required.

I will not reprove thee regarding thy sacrifices; thy burnt offerings are continually before me.

For thou dost not desire sacrifice or else would I give it; thou dost not delight in burnt offering.

This also shall please the LORD better than the sacrifice of an ox or bullock that struggles with horns and hoofs.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? shall the LORD say. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts; and I do not delight in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats.

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

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Therefore, I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies in living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing unto God, which is your rational worship.

In that he says, New, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxes old is ready to vanish away.

And after the second veil was the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,