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Gill's Exposition
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? That is, express a pleasure, take delight and satisfaction, in such kind of sacrifices, which can never take away sin: no, I will not;…
Barnes' Notes
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? - This is said to show still further the absurdity of the views which seem to have prevailed among those who offered sacrifices. They…
God is here dealing with those that placed all their religion in the observances of the ceremonial law, and thought those sufficient.
I. He lays down the original contract between him and Israel, in…
Cambridge Bible
Such a gross and material notion of sacrifice was common in heathen countries, and the survival of the phrase -bread" or -food of Jehovah" seems to indicate that it once existed even in Israel. See…