1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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I Samuel 15:22

And Samuel said: *Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

Ecclesiastes 4:17.; Osee 6:6.; Matthew 9:13.; Matthew 12:7.

Rams. Can God be pleased with victims which he has cursed? (Haydock)