What is your interpretation of this verse?

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Jeremiah 7
21 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.


26 However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention, but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
 
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The context of Jeremiah chapter 7 is about the sacrifices being made to other gods, specifically the Queen of Heaven. The command of the burnt offerings is going to go back to Leviticus. Leviticus takes place a month or so after the tabernacle was completed at Sinai. So the time frame G-d is referring to is between Israels escape from Egypt and the laying down of the Temple law in Leviticus.

So essentially G-d is saying 'Go ahead and give my burnt offerings to them. Even before I commanded the burnt offerings, when all I asked was that you obey, you went against me and made sacrifices to other gods.'

Specifically, I believe He is referring to...
Exodus 32:7And the Lord said to Moses, “Go down, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them. They have made for themselves a golden calf and have worshiped it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

Compare the bolded language above to that used in Jeremiah 7:23 " But this command I gave them: ‘Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be my people. And walk in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.’
 
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I see that burnt offerings and sacrifices were made during the days of Adam and Eve. The offerings and sacrifices continued until the 40 years spent in the desert.

Amos 5:25
“Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?
 
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Not too difficult when read from the beginning of the chapter...

  • The Northern Kingdom had already gone into captivity.
  • The Southern Kingdom remained in the Land, in control of the Temple.
  • While neglecting the terms of the covenant, Judah went deeper and deeper into idolatrous sacrifices.
  • Your verse is a reminder of Torah priorities—first relationship, then sacrifices. Judah had now gotten that completely backwards, thinking sacrifice took priority over obedience to the commandments.
The passage is not denying the value of sacrifice, merely pointing out that sacrifice without relationship is worthless. This is only a restatement frim an earlier time, when Samuel said,

“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”
~1Samuel 15:22,23
 
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Not too difficult when read from the beginning of the chapter...

  • The Northern Kingdom had already gone into captivity.
  • The Southern Kingdom remained in the Land, in control of the Temple.
  • While neglecting the terms of the covenant, Judah went deeper and deeper into idolatrous sacrifices.
  • Your verse is a reminder of Torah priorities—first relationship, then sacrifices. Judah had now gotten that completely backwards, thinking sacrifice took priority over obedience to the commandments.
The passage is not denying the value of sacrifice, merely pointing out that sacrifice without relationship is worthless. This is only a restatement frim an earlier time, when Samuel said,

“Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”
~1Samuel 15:22,23
I think the time frame would be key to understanding that verse. Wasn't Jeremiah referring to the days of Moses?
 
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Rashi says " Burnt offerings are completely burned on the Altar, while the flesh of peace offerings is eaten. G_d scathingly tells the people that they may as well not waste meat by bringing burnt-offerings - they should be brought, rather, as peace offerings - because they are not acceptable to G_d in any event".

See Leviticus Ch. 1 and 6 for example - it was the task of the Kohanim to place the the burnt offering on the Altar, not the people, and it is to be totally consumed by fire, overnight.
 
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It wasn't til Moses came down from the Mount to find the Israelites messing up, that he threw the tablets down, and then went back up to atone for their sins, that a parchment with the offerings and sacrifices were laid out. These things written on parchment are known as the Law of Moses, those written on stone are known as the Law of God.
 
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It wasn't til Moses came down from the Mount to find the Israelites messing up, that he threw the tablets down, and then went back up to atone for their sins, that a parchment with the offerings and sacrifices were laid out. These things written on parchment are known as the Law of Moses, those written on stone are known as the Law of God.


Scriptural reference for the parchment?
 
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Scriptural reference for the parchment?
Moses's Laws were written on parchment and placed on the side of the Ark. God's laws were placed inside the Ark.

Deuteronomy 31:26

“Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.


Deuteronomy 10:2

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”


1 Kings 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.


2 Chronicles 5:10

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.
 
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Moses's Laws were written on parchment and placed on the side of the Ark. God's laws were placed inside the Ark.

Deuteronomy 31:26

“Take this Book of the Law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God. There it will remain as a witness against you.


Deuteronomy 10:2

I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. Then you are to put them in the ark.”


1 Kings 8:9

There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.


2 Chronicles 5:10

There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the Lord made a covenant with the Israelites after they came out of Egypt.

Visionary's assertion is rather dogmatic - the order as to when Moses wrote it all down is very unclear.
 
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Visionary's assertion is rather dogmatic - the order as to when Moses wrote it all down is very unclear.
After the first commandments of God, additional commandments of God were added to parchment. Additionally, the Mosaic laws were added to also. Then, over the years the priesthood also added their laws. It can be a bit confusing for most people. You just need to figure which ones are which. Anyway, because we are now under a New Covenant, only the moral and Sabbath commands of God remain. Unless a person does not want to believe all of the scriptural evidence.
 
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Jeremiah 7
21 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak with them or command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.


26 However, they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention, but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.

The issue is with the timing. God did not give instructions concerning burnt offerings and sacrificed when they first came out of the land of Egypt, but rather that happened only after the incident with the golden calf.
 
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After the first commandments of God, additional commandments of God were added to parchment. Additionally, the Mosaic laws were added to also. Then, over the years the priesthood also added their laws. It can be a bit confusing for most people. You just need to figure which ones are which. Anyway, because we are now under a New Covenant, only the moral and Sabbath commands of God remain. Unless a person does not want to believe all of the scriptural evidence.

You've lost me there :) There is more than one account of the 2 tablets, of the writing of the Book of Law, and the giving of the Law, in part or in full - who wrote it, where and how etc etc. One needs to start back in Exodus with the giving of the so called 10 commandments, then go through the rest of Exodus, in particular chapters 24 and 32 and 39 (going from memory as I don't have my Bible with me right now). Then you need to read Deuteronomy Chapters 4 and 5, and possibly 6 also.

You will see that G_d wrote the first set of tablets, and Moses the second set. On one set the tablets were inscribed on BOTH sides, with the whole Law, and so on. It is not a clear cut issue at all!
 
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You've lost me there :) There is more than one account of the 2 tablets, of the writing of the Book of Law, and the giving of the Law, in part or in full - who wrote it, where and how etc etc. One needs to start back in Exodus with the giving of the so called 10 commandments, then go through the rest of Exodus, in particular chapters 24 and 32 and 39 (going from memory as I don't have my Bible with me right now). Then you need to read Deuteronomy Chapters 4 and 5, and possibly 6 also.

You will see that G_d wrote the first set of tablets, and Moses the second set. On one set the tablets were inscribed on BOTH sides, with the whole Law, and so on. It is not a clear cut issue at all!

Joshua copied the laws of Moses onto stone also.

Joshua 8:32
There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua copied on stones the law of Moses, which he had written.

2 Corinthians 3:7
[ The Glory of the New Covenant ] Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was,…


In regards to "Ministry of The Spirit." What that means is that you keep God's commandments, not because they are written in stone and are law, but because they are written in your heart; and you keep them for the love of God and your fellow man, because it is the right thing to do. "The ministry that brought death" is the Mosaic laws of the priesthood, not God's commandments.

2 Corinthians 3:3
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

2 Corinthians 3:8
will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?


Deuteronomy 31:26
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. Not the commandments written in stone. There are two sets of laws, God's commandment laws, and the priestly Levitical law.

Romans 10:4
Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

4 For Christ is the end[a] of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Footnotes:a.Romans 10:4 Or goal

Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.


The commandments and good works have not been done away with. All Paul is getting at is that you cannot buy your way into heaven just by keeping the commandments and good works. Evil people can keep the law and do good works. Such people have even been known to hide among us.

Matthew 5:18
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one title shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

Ephesians 4:12
to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up

Romans 3:31
Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.

Romans 6:15
What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Romans 7:7
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.


Matthew 5:19
Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of the commandments and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches the commandments will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
 
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The issue is with the timing. God did not give instructions concerning burnt offerings and sacrificed when they first came out of the land of Egypt, but rather that happened only after the incident with the golden calf.
My question would be; why was that even mentioned?
 
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