I will not reprove you for your sacrifices, or your burnt offerings, which are continually before Me.

For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; You do not delight in burnt offering.

And Samuel said: Has Jehovah as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in to obey the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to heed than the fat of rams.

What good to Me are your many sacrifices, says Jehovah? I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of well-fed cattle; nor do I delight in the blood of bulls, of lambs, or he goats.

He who kills an ox is as if he killed a man; he who sacrifices a lamb is as if he broke a dog's neck; he who offers an offering is as if he offered swine's blood; he who burns incense is as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel: Snatch away your burnt offerings from your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

But this is what I commanded them, saying, Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people; and walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it may be well with you.

For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than 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 came 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 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 can never take away sins.

then his master shall bring him to God. He shall also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him always.

then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction.

The Lord Jehovah has given Me the tongue of the learned, to know how to speak a word in season to the weary. He wakens morning by morning, He wakens the ear to hear as the learned.

The Lord Jehovah has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor turned away backwards.