⁸ I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

¹⁶ For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

¹¹ To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

⁶ For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.