I will not reprove you on account of your sacrifices; for your whole burnt offerings are before Me continually.

For if You desired sacrifice, I would have given [it]; You will not take pleasure in whole burnt offerings.

And Samuel said, Does the Lord take [as great] pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in hearing the words of the Lord? Behold, obedience is better than a good sacrifice, and hearkening than the fat of rams.

Of what [value] to Me is the abundance of your sacrifices? Says the Lord; I am full of whole burnt offerings of rams; and I delight not in the fat of lambs, and the blood of bulls and goats;

But the transgressor that sacrifices a calf to Me, is as he that kills a dog; and he that offers fine flour, as [one that offers] swine's blood; he that gives frankincense for a memorial, is as a blasphemer. Yet they have chosen their own ways, and their soul has delighted in their abominations.

Thus says the Lord, Gather your whole burnt offerings with your grain offerings, and eat flesh.

but I commanded them this thing, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all My ways which I shall command you, that it may be well with you.

For I desire mercy rather than sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than whole burnt offerings.

But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call [the] righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

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

Therefore, when He entered into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.

Then I said, 'Behold, I have come--In the volume of the book it is written of Me-- To do Your will, O God.'"

then He has said, "Behold, I have come to do Your will, O God." He takes away the first in order that He may establish the second.

And every priest stands ministering daily and offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which are never able to take away sins.

his master shall bring him to the judgment seat of God, and then shall he bring him to the door, to the doorpost, and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.

then He opens the understanding of men: He scares them with such fearful visions;

The Lord, [even] God, gives me the tongue of instruction, to know when it is fit to speak a word; He has appointed for me early, He has given me an ear to hear;

and the instruction of the Lord, even the Lord, opens my ears, and I do not disobey, nor dispute.