Psalm 51:16

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Summary

Psalm 51:16

For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

Desirest

Delightest

General references

Numbers 7:27

Numbers 29:17

Psalm 50:8

Bible References

Desirest

Behold, thou didst delight in truth in the reins, and in bidden things thou wilt cause me to know wisdom.

And if a man shall act proudly against his friend to kill him with craftiness, from mine altar shalt thou take him to die.

And if one soul shall sin in. error, and he brought a she goat the daughter of a goat, for sin.

Ye shall not take expiation for the soul of a slayer, he who was guilty to die, for dying, he shall die.

When a man shall be found lying with the woman mistress of a husband, and they died, also they two, the man lying with the woman, and the woman: and thou didst put away evil from Israel.

For I delighted in mercy and not sacrifice; the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.

Delightest

Sacrifice and a gift thou didst not delight in; the ears thou didst pierce to me: burnt-offering and sin thou didst not ask.

Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove thee and for thy burnt-offerings, being always before me.

The sacrifice of the unjust an abomination of Jehovah: and the prayer of the upright his acceptance.

The sacrifice of the unjust is an abomination, for also he will bring it in mischief.

For what to me the multitude of your sacrifices? Jehovah will say: I was filled with the burnt-offerings of rams and the fat of fatlings; and I delighted not in the blood of bullocks, and of he lambs and of he goats.

for I spake not to your fathers, and I commanded them not in the day of bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt, concerning my word of burnt-offering and sacrifice:

I hated, I rejected your festivals, and I will not smell in your assemblies.

Wherefore coming into the world, he says, Sacrifice and offering then wouldest not, but a body hast thou adjusted to me:

General references

One bullock, son of a cow, one ram, one lamb, son of his year, for a burnt-offering:

And in the second day, twelve bullocks, sons of a cow, two rams, fourteen blameless lambs, sons of a year.

Not for thy sacrifices will I reprove thee and for thy burnt-offerings, being always before me.