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Micah 6:6-8
EasyEnglish Bible
Micah 6:6-8
EasyEnglish Bible
What God wants from his people
6 ‘I come to meet with the Lord,’ you say.[a]
‘I must know what to bring when I come.
I bend down to worship him.
I must know what to offer when I bend down.
He is God and he is greater than everything.
Perhaps he would like it if I burn young cows one year old for him.
7 He might be happy with thousands of male sheep,
or ten thousand rivers of olive oil.
I have not obeyed God.
I might even kill and burn my oldest son, because of that.
I have done wrong things and I must pay God for that.
Perhaps, if I give my own child to him, that will be enough to pay.’
8 But God has told us what is good.[b] This is what the Lord wants from us:
‘You must be fair to other people,’ God says.
‘You must want to be kind.[c]
And you must be careful to do what I show you.’
Footnotes
- 6:6 Micah speaks as one man, on behalf of Israel's people. They want to give gifts to God. They will give anything that God wants. They will try to pay for what they have done wrong. Some people wanted to kill and burn a child as a way to give him to God. We know that God certainly does not want this.
- 6:8 Micah replies on God's behalf. God wanted the people to obey him. He did not really want other gifts from them.
- 6:8 Micah uses a special word for ‘kind’. It means to be a friend. And not to stop, whatever happens.
Micah 6:6-8
New International Version
Micah 6:6-8
New International Version
6 With what shall I come before(A) the Lord
and bow down before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
with calves a year old?(B)
7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,(C)
with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?(D)
Shall I offer my firstborn(E) for my transgression,
the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?(F)
8 He has shown you, O mortal, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of you?
To act justly(G) and to love mercy
and to walk humbly[a](H) with your God.(I)
Footnotes
- Micah 6:8 Or prudently
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