I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
Parallel translations
- KJV I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
- BSB I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- NKJV I will not rebuke you for your sacrifices Or your burnt offerings, Which are continually before Me.
- NASB “I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.
- NLT I have no complaint about your sacrifices or the burnt offerings you constantly offer.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Hos 6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
- Heb 10:4–10For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
- Isa 1:11–31“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
- Ps 51:16For you don’t delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
- Ps 40:6–8Sacrifice and offering you didn’t desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
- Jer 7:21–23Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices, and eat meat.
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