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"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
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I do not reprove you for your sacrifices; your burnt offerings are continually before me.
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I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
10
For every beast of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.
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I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.
12
"If I were hungry, I would not tell you; for the world and all that is in it is mine.
13
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
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Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High;
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and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (Revised Standard Version)