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“I don’t want your sacrifices—I want your love; I don’t want your offerings—I want you to know me.

“But like Adam, you broke my covenant; you refused my love. Gilead is a city of sinners, tracked with footprints of blood.

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For I desire mercy, not sacrifice,(A)
    and acknowledgment(B) of God rather than burnt offerings.(C)
As at Adam,[a] they have broken the covenant;(D)
    they were unfaithful(E) to me there.
Gilead is a city of evildoers,(F)
    stained with footprints of blood.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 6:7 Or Like Adam; or Like human beings