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 have brought near a burnt-offering, a fire-offering, a sweet fragrance, to Jehovah; thirteen bullocks, sons of the herd, two rams, fourteen lambs, sons of a year; perfect ones they are;

Sacrifice and present Thou hast not desired, Ears Thou hast prepared for me, Burnt and sin-offering Thou hast not asked.

Not for thy sacrifices do I reprove thee, Yea, thy burnt-offerings Are before Me continually.

For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give it, Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not.

And it is better to Jehovah than an ox, A bullock -- horned -- hoofed.

Why to Me the abundance of your sacrifices? saith Jehovah, I have been satiated with burnt-offerings of rams, And fat of fatlings; And blood of bullocks, and lambs, And he-goats I have not desired.

For I did not speak with your fathers, Nor did I command them in the day of My bringing them out of the land of Egypt, Concerning the matters of burnt-offering and sacrifice,

For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.

I call upon you, therefore, brethren, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies a sacrifice -- living, sanctified, acceptable to God -- your intelligent service;

in the saying 'new,' He hath made the first old, and what doth become obsolete and is old is nigh disappearing.

and after the second vail a tabernacle that is called 'Holy of holies,'