Numbers 29:17

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Numbers 29:17

And on the second day ye shall offer twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:

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You shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire as a soothing aroma to the Lord: thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old, which are without defect;

Sacrifice and meal offering You have not desired;

My ears You have opened;
Burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

“I do not reprove you for your sacrifices,
And your burnt offerings are continually before Me.

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

And it will please the Lord better than an ox
Or a young bull with horns and hoofs.

“What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?”
Says the Lord.
“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams
And the fat of fed cattle;
And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.

For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices.

For I delight in loyalty rather than sacrifice,
And in the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

Behind the second veil there was a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies,