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Isaiah 43:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You have not brought me your sheep for burnt offerings or honoured me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings or wearied you with incense.

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‘House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to me during the forty years in the wilderness?


For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.’


‘Will a man rob  God? Yet you are robbing me! ’ ‘How do we rob you? ’ you ask. ‘By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.


for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them  or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.


One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.


The sacrifice of a wicked person is detestable  – how much more so when he brings it with ulterior motives!


The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the  Lord, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.


‘When anyone presents a grain offering  as an offering to the Lord, it is to consist of fine flour.  He is to pour olive oil  on it, put frankincense on it,


The Lord said to Moses, ‘Take fragrant spices: stacte, onycha, and galbanum; the spices and pure frankincense are to be in equal measures.


Place pure frankincense  near each row, so that it may serve as a memorial portion  for the bread and a food offering  to the Lord.


Honour the Lord with your possessions and with the first produce of your entire harvest;


This is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,


My people,  what have I done to you, or how have I wearied you? Testify against me!


I also found out that because the portions for the Levites had not been given,  each of the Levites and the singers performing the service had gone back to his own field.





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