For I spake not with your fathers, and I commanded not to them of the word of burnt sacrifices, and of slain sacrifices, in the day in which I led them out of the land of Egypt.
Thou wouldest or desiredest not sacrifice and offering; but thou madest perfectly ears to me. Thou askedest not burnt sacrifice, and other sacrifice for sin;
For why the sons of Israel, and the sons of Judah, did evil continually, from their young waxing age, before mine eyes; the sons of Israel, which till to now wrathed me by the work of their hands, saith the Lord.
[and] that he be loved of all the heart, and of all the mind, and of all the understanding, and of all the soul, and of all the strength, and to love the neighbour as himself, is greater [or is more], than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
And Samuel said, Whether the Lord will or desireth burnt sacrifices, either slain sacrifices, and not more, rather, that men obey to the voice of the Lord? Forsooth obedience to him is better than sacrifices, and to take heed to his word is more than to offer the inner fatness of rams;