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Jeremiah 7:22
Jeremiah 7:22 is verse 22 of Jeremiah chapter 7, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
King James Version
For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
World English Bible
For I didn’t speak to your fathers or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices;
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Jeremiah 7:20–24 · Berean Standard Bible
20 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
21 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!
22 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,
23 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
24 Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
1 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
Psalms 40:6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
Psalms 50:8I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
Psalms 50:9I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
Psalms 50:10for every beast of the forest is Mine— the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalms 50:11I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are Mine.
Psalms 50:12If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.
Psalms 50:13Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Psalms 50:14Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Psalms 50:15Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
Psalms 50:16To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?
Psalms 50:17For you hate My instruction and cast My words behind you.
Psalms 51:16For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
Mark 12:33and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself, which is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”