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Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,
    with myriad streams of oil?
[a] Shall I give my firstborn for my crime,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

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Footnotes

  1. 6:7 The questions reach their climax with the possibility of child sacrifice, a practice known in antiquity (cf. 2 Kgs 16:3; 21:6).

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,(A)
    with ten thousand rivers of olive oil?(B)
Shall I offer my firstborn(C) for my transgression,
    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?(D)

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