²⁷ The sacrifice of the wicked ones is something detestable.+ How much more so when one brings it along with loose conduct.+

¹¹ “Of what benefit to me is the multitude of YOUR sacrifices?” says Jehovah. “I have had enough of whole burnt offerings+ of rams+ and the fat of well-fed animals;+ and in the blood+ of young bulls and male lambs and he-goats+ I have taken no delight.+

³ “The one slaughtering the bull is as one striking down a man.*+ The one sacrificing the sheep is as one breaking the neck of a dog.+ The one offering up a gift—the blood of a pig!+ The one presenting a memorial of frankincense+ is as one saying a blessing with uncanny words.*+ They are also the ones that have chosen their own ways, and in their disgusting things their very soul has taken a delight.+

²⁰ “What does this matter to me that you bring in even frankincense from She′ba+ and the good cane* from the land far away? The whole burnt offerings of YOU people serve for no pleasure,+ and YOUR very sacrifices have not been gratifying to me.”+

²³ “Woe to YOU, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because YOU give the tenth+ of the mint and the dill and the cumin, but YOU have disregarded the weightier matters of the Law, namely, justice+ and mercy+ and faithfulness.*+ These things it was binding to do, yet not to disregard the other things.