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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Psalms 50:13

Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Formalism;   Offerings;   Scofield Reference Index - Judgments;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Burnt Offering, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Asaph;   Psalms, the Book of;   Sacrifice;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Forgiveness;   God;   Worship;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Tabernacle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Goat;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bull;   Sacrifice;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Asaph;   English Versions;   Gift, Giving;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Jonah;   Ox, Oxen, Herd, Cattle;   Psalms;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Blood ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ox, Oxen;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Psalms the book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Bull;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Law in the Old Testament;   Wild Beast;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Atonement;   God;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do I eat the flesh of bullsor drink the blood of goats?
Hebrew Names Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
English Standard Version
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
New Century Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats.
New English Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?
Amplified Bible
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?
New American Standard Bible
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?
World English Bible
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Will I eate the flesh of bulles? or drinke the blood of goates?
Legacy Standard Bible
Shall I eat the flesh of bullsOr drink the blood of male goats?
Berean Standard Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Contemporary English Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats.
Complete Jewish Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
Darby Translation
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, and drink the blood of goats?
Easy-to-Read Version
I don't eat the meat of bulls or drink the blood of goats."
George Lamsa Translation
I eat not the flesh of bulls, neither do I drink the blood of goats.
Good News Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
Lexham English Bible
Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
Literal Translation
Will I eat the flesh of mighty ones , and will I drink the blood of he-goats?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thynkest thou, that I wil eate the flesh of oxen, or drynke the bloude of goates?
American Standard Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
Bible in Basic English
Am I to take the flesh of the ox for my food, or the blood of goats for my drink?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
King James Version (1611)
Will I eate the flesh of bulles, or drinke the blood of goats?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thinkest thou that I will eate bulles fleshe: and drynke the blood of goates?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
English Revised Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether Y schal eete the fleischis of boolis? ethir schal Y drynke the blood of geet buckis?
Update Bible Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
Webster's Bible Translation
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
New King James Version
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, Or drink the blood of goats?
New Living Translation
Do I eat the meat of bulls? Do I drink the blood of goats?
New Life Bible
Should I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of male goats?
New Revised Standard
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(49-13) Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?
Revised Standard Version
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
Young's Literal Translation
Do I eat the flesh of bulls, And drink the blood of he-goats?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Shall I eat the flesh of bulls Or drink the blood of male goats?

Contextual Overview

7 Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will adjure thee, God, thine own God, I am: - 8 Not, for thy sacrifices, will I reprove thee, Nor for thine ascending-offerings, before me continually: 9 I will not take out of thy house - a bullock, Nor out of thy folds - he-goats; 10 For, mine, is every wild-beast of the forest, The cattle on the mountains, in their thousands; 11 I know every bird of the mountains, And, the moving things of the plain, are with me: 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, For, mine, is the world, and the fulness thereof. 13 Will I eat the flesh of mighty oxen? Or, the blood of he-goats, will I drink? 14 Sacrifice to God a thankoffering, And pay to the Most High thy vows; 15 Call upon me, then, in the day of distress, I will deliver thee, that thou mayest glorify me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Leviticus 7:12 - a thanksgiving Deuteronomy 32:38 - eat the fat Deuteronomy 33:19 - they shall Psalms 69:31 - also shall John 4:24 - must Romans 12:1 - that ye

Cross-References

Genesis 23:20
So was confirmed the field with the cave which was therein to Abraham, for a possession of a buryingplace, - from the sons of Heth.
Genesis 25:9
And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him, in the cave of Machpelah, - in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite, which is over against Mamre;
Genesis 35:27
Then came Jacob unto Isaac his father, to Mature, the city of Arba, - the same, is Hebron, where had sojourned Abraham and Isaac.
Genesis 35:29
And Isaac breathed his last, and died and was added unto his people, old, and satisfied with days, - and Esau and Jacob his sons buried him.
Genesis 50:16
So they sent in charge unto Joseph saying, - Thy father, gave command before he died saying:
Genesis 50:18
Then went his brethren also, and fell down before him, - and said, Behold us! thine for servants.
2 Kings 21:18
And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, - and, Amon his son, reigned, in his stead.
Acts 7:16
And were brought over into Shechem, and laid in the tomb which Abraham had purchased, for a price of silver, of the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?] That is, express a pleasure, take delight and satisfaction, in such kind of sacrifices, which can never take away sin: no, I will not; wherefore other sacrifices, more agreeable to his nature, mind, and will, and to the Gospel dispensation, are next mentioned.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? - This is said to show still further the absurdity of the views which seem to have prevailed among those who offered sacrifices. They offered them “as if” they were needed by God; “as if” they laid him under obligation; “as if” in some way they contributed to his happiness, or were essential to his welfare. The only supposition on which this could be true was, that he needed the flesh of the one for food, and the blood of the other for drink; or that he was sustained as creatures are. Yet this was a supposition, which, when it was stated in a formal manner, must be at once seen to be absurd; and hence the emphatic question in this verse. It may serve to illustrate this, also, to remark, that, among the pagan, the opinion did undoubtedly prevail that the gods ate and drank what was offered to them in sacrifice; whereas the truth was, that these things were consumed by the priests who attended on pagan altars, and conducted the devotions of pagan temples, and who found that it contributed much to their own support, and did much to secure the liberality of the people, to keep up the impression that what was thus offered was consumed by the gods. God appeals here to his own people in this earnest manner because it was to be presumed that “they” had higher conceptions of him than the pagan had; and that, enlightened as they were, they could not for a moment suppose these offerings necessary for him. This is one of the passages in the Old Testament which imply that God is a Spirit, and that, as such, he is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Compare John 4:24.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 50:13. Will I eat the flesh of bulls — Can ye be so simple as to suppose that I appointed such sacrifices for my own gratification? All these were significative of a spiritual worship, and of the sacrifice of that Lamb of God which, in the fulness of time, was to take away, in an atoning manner, the sin of the world.


 
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