6For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
6For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
3 And let us know, let us follow on to know Jehovah: his going forth is sure as the morning; and he will come unto us as the rain, as the latter rain that watereth the earth.
4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth early away.
5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth.
6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
7 But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.
8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than holocausts.
6:6For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice: and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
6:6For I desire mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
6:6For kindness I desired, and not sacrifice, And a knowledge of God above burnt-offerings.
6:6For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.