²⁷ one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;

⁸ I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.

⁹ I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.

¹⁰ For every animal of the forest is mine, And the cattle on a thousand hills.

¹¹ I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.

¹² If I were hungry, I would not tell you, For the world is mine, and all that is in it.

¹³ Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?

¹⁴ Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

¹⁶ For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.

¹¹ "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, Or of lambs, Or of male goats.

²² For I didn't speak to your fathers, nor command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:

²² Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal-offerings, I will not accept them; Neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.