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If you offer as a sacrifice an animal that you have obtained dishonestly, it is defective and unacceptable.
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The Most High gets no pleasure from sacrifices made by ungodly people; no amount of sacrifices can make up for their sins.
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Anyone who steals an animal from the poor to offer as a sacrifice is like someone who kills a boy before his father's eyes.
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Food means life itself to poor people, and taking it away from them is murder.
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It is murder to deprive someone of his living or to cheat an employee of his wages.
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When one person builds and somebody else tears down, has anything been accomplished but hard work?
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When one person blesses and somebody else curses, which one is the Lord going to listen to?
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If you touch a dead body and then purify yourself by washing, but then go and touch it again, what good did the washing do?
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If you fast because of your sins, and then go out and commit the same sins over again, what have you gained by going without food? Who do you think is going to listen to your prayers?