“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
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“What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
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Questions where the Bible appears to say two different things, with the passages on each side set together.
The Bible names at least six different sins as the reason Sodom was destroyed: same-sex intercourse (Leviticus 18:22 read into Ezekiel 16:50), inhospitality (Matthew 10, Luke 10, Wisdom 19:13), seeking sex with angels and 'strange flesh' (Genesis 19, Jude 7), pride and neglect of the poor (Isaiah 1, Ezekiel 16:49), adultery and lying (Jeremiah 23:14), and generic ungodliness (2 Peter 2). The 'homosexuality' reading is a late interpretive overlay that the Hebrew Bible's own internal cross-references don't support.
Critical scholarship: Usually considered reconciled.
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"Isaiah 1:11 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/isaiah/1/11?version=WEB (retrieved 26 August 2026).