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TSK · Mark 12:33

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I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to Yahweh than sacrifice.

Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

Hosea 6:6 TSK

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

Micah 6:6 TSK

How shall I come before Yahweh, and bow myself before the exalted God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?

But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.

Previously saying, "Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn't desire, neither had pleasure in them" (those which are offered according to the law),