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If Yahweh Tsebaoth hadn’t left us a few survivors,
    we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Israel’s Corrupt Religion

10 Listen to the word of Yahweh, you rulers of Sodom!
    Pay attention to the teachings from our Elohim, you people of Gomorrah!
11 Yahweh asks, “What do your many animal sacrifices mean to me?
    I’ve had enough of your burnt offerings of rams
        and enough fat from your fattened calves.
    I’m not pleased with the blood of bulls, lambs, or male goats.

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Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us some survivors,(A)
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.(B)

10 Hear the word of the Lord,(C)
    you rulers of Sodom;(D)
listen to the instruction(E) of our God,
    you people of Gomorrah!(F)
11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—
    what are they to me?” says the Lord.
“I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
    of rams and the fat of fattened animals;(G)
I have no pleasure(H)
    in the blood of bulls(I) and lambs and goats.(J)

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