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For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

6:6 mercy, and not sacrifice. The Lord Jesus quoted this verse in Matthew 9:13, affirming the eternal principle that religious rituals were meaningless without the obedience in heart and life that they were supposed to express.


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