Psalm 50:8-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you,
your burnt offerings are always before me.
9 I will not take a bullock from your house,
or he-goats from your folds.(A)
10 For every animal of the forest is mine,
beasts by the thousands on my mountains.
11 I know every bird in the heights;
whatever moves in the wild is mine.
12 Were I hungry, I would not tell you,
for mine is the world and all that fills it.(B)
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of he-goats?
Ben Sira 34:23
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
23 The Most High is not pleased with the gifts of the godless,
nor for their many sacrifices does he forgive their sins.
Micah 6:7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
with myriad streams of oil?
[a] Shall I give my firstborn for my crime,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
Footnotes
- 6:7 The questions reach their climax with the possibility of child sacrifice, a practice known in antiquity (cf. 2 Kgs 16:3; 21:6).
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