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(a)(A)Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;
My ears You have (b)opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.
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Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is (c)written of me.
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(B)I delight to do Your will, O my God;
(C)Your Law is within my heart.”

Footnotes:

a. Psalm 40:6: ['I.e. Blood sacrifice']
b. Psalm 40:6: ['Lit ', dug, '; or possibly ', pierced]
c. Psalm 40:7: ['Or ', prescribed for]

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