Isaiah 1:12
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12 When you come to appear before me,[a]
who asked this from your hand?
Trample my courts no more!(A)
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- 1.12 Or see my face
Exodus 34:23
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23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.(A)
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Exodus 23:17
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17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.
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Matthew 23:5
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5 They do all their deeds to be seen by others, for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.(A)
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Micah 6:8
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8 He has told you, O mortal, what is good,
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice and to love kindness
and to walk humbly with your God?(A)
Isaiah 58:1-2
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False and True Worship
58 Shout out; do not hold back!
Lift up your voice like a trumpet!
Announce to my people their rebellion,
to the house of Jacob their sins.(A)
2 Yet day after day they seek me
and delight to know my ways,
as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness
and did not forsake the ordinance of their God;
they ask of me righteous judgments;
they want God on their side.[a](B)
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- 58.2 Or they delight to draw near to God
Ecclesiastes 5:1
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Reverence, Humility, and Contentment
5 [a]Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than the sacrifice offered by fools, for they do not know how to keep from doing evil.[b](A)
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Psalm 40:6
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6 Sacrifice and offering you do not desire,
but you have given me an open ear.[a]
Burnt offering and sin offering
you have not required.(A)
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- 40.6 Heb ears you have dug for me
Deuteronomy 16:16
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16 “Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord your God at the place that he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, at the Festival of Weeks, and at the Festival of Booths.[a] They shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed;(A)
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- 16.16 Or Tabernacles
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