To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.
Ibn Ezra
To what purpose, etc. Why should I leave you longer in the land ? Is it for the sake of the multitude of your burnt offerings ? I am full, etc. An anthropomorphism ; in reality, He does not want anything; comp. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee, etc. (Ps. 1. 12 ff). אילים Large sheep. מריאים A species of cattle, akin to the ox, but larger; its fat is prohibited. The Gaon compares מריאים fed beasts with מרא to feed (Mishnah Sabbath 24:3). כבשים The young of the flock. עתודים The old of the flock (comp. Gen. 31:10)
Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.