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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As a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah, bring thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen one-year-old lambs, all of them without defects.

You have not desired sacrifice and meal offering. You have opened my ears. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.

I do not reprove you for your sacrifices or burnt offerings, which are constantly (always) in front of me.

You do not desire sacrifice. Otherwise, I would offer one to you. You are not pleased with burnt offerings.

It will please Jehovah better than an ox of bull that has horns and hoofs.

Jehovah says: What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me? I have had enough of your burnt offerings of rams and enough fat from your fattened calves. I am not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.

For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

I desire loving-kindness (mercy), not sacrifice, and knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

I request (urge) (implore) you brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

By calling this covenant new, he has made the first one old (obsolete). That which grows old and aged will soon disappear.

Beyond the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place.