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Sacrifices do not make you happy.
If people burn whole animals as a sacrifice,
or if they offer a sacrifice to make them clean from their sins,
that does not make you happy.
Then I said, “Here I am, my God.
I have come to do what you want.
That is what it says about me in the Bible.” ’[a]

So think about what Christ said there. First he said to God, ‘You have not wanted gifts and sacrifices of animals. Any kind of sacrifice like that does not make you happy.’ But we know that Moses' rules taught about those sacrifices. God's law said that they were necessary.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:7 See Psalms 40:6-8.