It will please Yahweh better than an ox, or a bull that has horns and hoofs.
Parallel translations
- KJV This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.
- BSB And this will please the LORD more than an ox, more than a bull with horns and hooves.
- NKJV This also shall please the Lord better than an ox or bull, Which has horns and hooves.
- NASB And it will please the Lord better than an ox Or bull with horns and hoofs.
- NLT For this will please the Lord more than sacrificing cattle, more than presenting a bull with its horns and hooves.
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- Heb 13:15Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
- Ps 50:13–14Will I eat the meat of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
- Eph 5:19–20speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
- 1 Pet 2:5You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
- Ps 50:23Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
- Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
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