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21 Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel, “Add your (A)burnt offerings to your sacrifices and (B)eat flesh. 22 For I did not (C)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. 23 But this is [a]what I commanded them, saying, ‘(D)Listen to My voice, and (E)I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in the entire way which I command you, that it may (F)be well with you.’ 24 Yet they (G)did not listen or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart and [b](H)went backward and not forward. 25 Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have (I)sent you all My slaves the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them. 26 Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but (J)stiffened their neck; they (K)did more evil than their fathers.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 7:23 Lit the word which
  2. Jeremiah 7:24 Lit they were

21 This is what the Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, says: Add your entirely burned offerings to your sacrifices and eat them yourselves! 22 On the day I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn’t say a thing—I gave no instructions—about entirely burned offerings or sacrifices. 23 Rather, this is what I required of them: Obey me so that I may become your God and you may become my people. Follow the path I mark out for you so that it may go well with you. 24 But they didn’t listen or pay attention. They followed their willful and evil hearts and went backward rather than forward. 25 From the moment your ancestors left the land of Egypt to this day, I have sent you all my servants the prophets—day after day. 26 But they didn’t listen to me or pay attention; they were stubborn and did more harm than their ancestors.

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