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Psalms 50:9

I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Formalism;   Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dedication;   Offerings;   Unacceptable Offerings;   Wicked, the;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Earth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burnt Offering, the;   Goat, the;   Ox, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sheep-Fold;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Psalms;   Sin;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Sanctify;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Goat;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will not take a bull from your householdor male goats from your pens,
Hebrew Names Version
I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
King James Version
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
English Standard Version
I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds.
New Century Version
But I do not need bulls from your stalls or goats from your pens,
Amplified Bible
"I will accept no young bull from your house Nor male goat from your folds.
New American Standard Bible
"I will not take a bull from your house, Nor male goats from your folds.
World English Bible
I have no need for a bull from your stall, Nor male goats from your pens.
Geneva Bible (1587)
I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.
Legacy Standard Bible
I shall take no young bull out of your houseNor male goats out of your folds.
Berean Standard Bible
I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens,
Contemporary English Version
I won't accept your offerings of bulls and goats.
Complete Jewish Bible
I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens;
Darby Translation
I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds:
Easy-to-Read Version
Why would I want more bulls from your barns or goats from your pens?
George Lamsa Translation
I will take no bullocks out of your house nor he-goats out of your folds.
Good News Translation
And yet I do not need bulls from your farms or goats from your flocks;
Lexham English Bible
I will not take from your house a bull or from your stalls a he-goat,
Literal Translation
I will take no bull out of your house, nor he-goats out of your folds,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wil take no bullockes out of thy house, ner gotes out of thy foldes.
American Standard Version
I will take no bullock out of thy house, Nor he-goats out of thy folds.
Bible in Basic English
I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;
JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
King James Version (1611)
I will take no bullocke out of thy house, nor hee goates out of thy folds.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll take no bullocke out of thy house: nor goates out of thy foldes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will take no bullocks out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy flocks.
English Revised Version
I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy folds.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I schal not take calues of thin hows; nethir geet buckis of thi flockis.
Update Bible Version
I will take no bull out of your house, Nor he-goats out of your folds.
Webster's Bible Translation
I will take no bullock out of thy house, [nor] he-goats out of thy folds.
New King James Version
I will not take a bull from your house, Nor goats out of your folds.
New Living Translation
But I do not need the bulls from your barns or the goats from your pens.
New Life Bible
I will not take a young bull out of your house, or male goats out of your fields.
New Revised Standard
I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from your folds.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will not take out of thy house - a bullock, Nor out of thy folds - he-goats;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-9) I will not take calves out of thy house: nor he goats out of thy flocks.
Revised Standard Version
I will accept no bull from your house, nor he-goat from your folds.
Young's Literal Translation
I take not from thy house a bullock, From thy folds he goats.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I shall take no young bull out of your house Nor male goats out of your folds.

Contextual Overview

7 He says: "Listen my people! I am speaking! Listen Israel! I am accusing you! I am God, your God! 8 I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me. 9 I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds. 10 For every wild animal in the forest belongs to me, as well as the cattle that graze on a thousand hills. 11 I keep track of every bird in the hills, and the insects of the field are mine. 12 Even if I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all it contains belong to me. 13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats? 14 Present to God a thank-offering! Repay your vows to the sovereign One! 15 Pray to me when you are in trouble! I will deliver you, and you will honor me!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Isaiah 43:23, Isaiah 43:24, Micah 6:6-8, Acts 17:25, Hebrews 10:4-6

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:24 - Let Numbers 23:1 - seven altars Numbers 29:17 - General 1 Samuel 15:22 - Hath the Lord Ezra 6:9 - young bullocks Psalms 16:2 - my goodness Micah 6:7 - pleased Acts 7:50 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 41:43
Pharaoh had him ride in the chariot used by his second-in-command, and they cried out before him, "Kneel down!" So he placed him over all the land of Egypt.
Genesis 46:29
Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet his father Israel in Goshen. When he met him, he hugged his neck and wept on his neck for quite some time.
Exodus 14:7
He took six hundred select chariots, and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, and officers on all of them.
Exodus 14:17
And as for me, I am going to harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will come after them, that I may be honored because of Pharaoh and his army and his chariots and his horsemen.
Exodus 14:28
The water returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that was coming after the Israelites into the sea—not so much as one of them survived!
2 Kings 18:24
Certainly you will not refuse one of my master's minor officials and trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen.
Song of Solomon 1:9

The Lover to His Beloved:

O my beloved, you are like a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.
Acts 8:2
Some devout men buried Stephen and made loud lamentation over him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will take no bullock out of thy house,.... That is, will accept of none; such sacrifices being no more agreeable to the will of God, Hebrews 10:5; the "bullock" is mentioned, that being a principal creature used in sacrifice; as also the following,

[nor] he goats out of thy folds; the reasons follow.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will take no bullock out of thy house - Bullocks were offered regularly in the Hebrew service and sacrifice Exodus 29:11, Exodus 29:36; Leviticus 4:4; 1Ki 18:23, 1 Kings 18:33; and it is with reference to this that the language is used here. In obedience to the law it was right and proper to offer such sacrifices; and the design here is not to express disapprobation of these offerings in themselves considered. On this subject - on the external compliance with the law in this respect - God says Psalms 50:8 that he had no cause to complain against them. It was only with respect to the design and the spirit with which they did this, that the language in this verse and the following verses is used. The idea which it is the purpose of these verses to suggest is, that God did not “need” such offerings; that they were not to be made “as if” he needed them; and that if he needed such he was not “dependent” on them, for all the beasts of the earth and all the fowls of the mountains were his, and could be taken for that purpose; and that if he took what was claimed to be theirs - the bullocks and the goats - he did not wrong them, for all were his, and he claimed only his own.

Nor he-goats out of thy folds - Goats were also offered in sacrifice. Leviticus 3:12; Leviticus 4:24; Leviticus 10:16 : Numbers 15:27.


 
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