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20 Of what use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba
    or sweet cane from a distant land?
Your burnt offerings are not acceptable,
    nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.(A)

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With their flocks and herds they shall go
    to seek the Lord,
but they will not find him;
    he has withdrawn from them.(A)

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13 Though they offer choice sacrifices,[a]
    though they eat flesh,
    the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity
    and punish their sins;
    they shall return to Egypt.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 8.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain

14 Haggai then said, “So is it with this people and with this nation before me, says the Lord, and so with every work of their hands; what they offer there is unclean.(A)

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