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13 But you go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’Hosea 6:6 for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 9:13 NU omits “to repentance”.

How shall I come before Yahweh,
    and bow myself before the exalted God?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
    with calves a year old?
Will Yahweh be pleased with thousands of rams?
    With tens of thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my firstborn for my disobedience?
    The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
He has shown you, O man, what is good.
    What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly,
    to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

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

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