Psalms 50:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 69:31 : 31 That will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.
  • Isa 43:23-24 : 23 You did not bring me lambs for your burnt offerings; you did not honor me with your sacrifices. I did not burden you with offerings; I did not make you weary by demanding incense. 24 You did not buy me aromatic reeds; you did not present to me the fat of your sacrifices. Yet you burdened me with your sins; you made me weary with your evil deeds.
  • Mic 6:6-8 : 6 With what should I enter the LORD’s presence? With what should I bow before the sovereign God? Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? 7 Will the LORD accept a thousand rams, or ten thousand streams of olive oil? Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion, my offspring– my own flesh and blood– for my sin? 8 He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the LORD really wants from you: He wants you to carry out justice, to love faithfulness, and to live obediently before your God.
  • Acts 17:25 : 25 nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives life and breath and everything to everyone.
  • Heb 10:4-6 : 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 So when he came into the world, he said,“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. 6 “Whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you took no delight in.

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    8I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.

  • Ps 50:10-13
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    10For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills.

    11I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine.

    12Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me.

    13Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?

  • Deut 17:1
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    1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.

  • Amos 5:22-23
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    22Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.

    23Take away from me your noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.

  • Ezek 34:22
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    22I will save my sheep; they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.

  • Lev 22:19-21
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    19if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

    20You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

    21If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw.

  • Isa 1:11
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    11“Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?” says the LORD.“I have had my fill of burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want.

  • Ps 66:15
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    15I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices, along with the smell of sacrificial rams. I will offer cattle and goats.(Selah)

  • Lev 1:10
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    10Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male,

  • Deut 14:4
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    4These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

  • Deut 15:19
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    19Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

  • Ezek 34:17
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    17“‘As for you, my sheep, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to judge between one sheep and another, between rams and goats.

  • Ps 51:16
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    16Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.

  • Job 21:10
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    10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

  • Exod 22:30
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    30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

  • Prov 27:26
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    26the lambs will be for your clothing, and the goats will be for the price of a field.

  • Ps 69:31
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    31That will please the LORD more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

  • Lev 22:28
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    28You must not slaughter an ox or a sheep and its young on the same day.

  • Heb 10:4
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    4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

  • Exod 12:5
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    5Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

  • Isa 60:7
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    7All the sheep of Kedar will be gathered to you; the rams of Nebaioth will be available to you as sacrifices. They will go up on my altar acceptably, and I will bestow honor on my majestic temple.

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    26“‘On the fifth day you must offer nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

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    21You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

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    38“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

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    31So Laban asked,“What should I give you?”“You don’t need to give me a thing,” Jacob replied,“but if you agree to this one condition, I will continue to care for your flocks and protect them:

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    17He will demand a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will be his servants.

  • Lev 22:23
    69%

    23As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.

  • Gen 15:9
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    9The LORD said to him,“Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

  • Deut 28:31
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    31Your ox will be slaughtered before your very eyes but you will not eat of it. Your donkey will be stolen from you as you watch and will not be returned to you. Your flock of sheep will be given to your enemies and there will be no one to save you.

  • Isa 40:16
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    16Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.

  • Num 7:51
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    51one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Lev 9:3
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    3Then tell the Israelites:‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,

  • Num 18:17
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    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Ezek 43:25
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    25“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

  • Ps 40:6
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    6Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

  • Num 28:19
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    19“‘But you must offer to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

  • Lev 1:2
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    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When someone among you presents an offering to the LORD, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.

  • Ps 8:7
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    7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,

  • Num 15:11
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    11This is what is to be done for each ox, or each ram, or each of the male lambs or the goats.

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    29“‘On the sixth day you must offer eight bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

  • Lev 25:7
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    7your cattle, and the wild animals that are in your land– all its produce will be for you to eat.

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    21If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.

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    23“‘On the fourth day you must offer ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,