What is correct?
Hebrews 10, quotes Psalms 40:6 as Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me. with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. But Psalms 40:6 actually says Sacrifice and offering you did not desire—
"but my ears you have opened"
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require. Hence, God was happy hearing repentance he didn't require a sacrifice. So how did "body" get in the quote?
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It came thru the Septuagint, Septuagint wording actually fits the argument of Hebrews: Psalm 40 says God wants obedience, not animal sacrifices. Hebrews applies that to Jesus: His whole body becomes the ultimate act of obedience, replacing animal offerings. So Hebrews isn’t “changing” Scripture — it’s quoting the Jewish Greek Bible that already existed. 3/1/26
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⭐️Creamcrackered Not, animal sacrifice for human sacrifice? ie Jesus hence his body. I read psalms as God listens to (ears) repentance more than any type of sacrifice. -
dalcocono God gave the instructions for animal sacrifice after they left Egypt. Your reading is contrary to the Jews of the era and later ChristiansThe Septuagint isn’t replacing repentance with human sacrifice. The Hebrew phrase in Psalm 40:6 literally says “my ears you have opened,” which is a Hebrew idiom for making someone obedient. The Jewish translators who made the Greek Septuagint expressed the same idea more broadly as “a body you prepared for me,” meaning God equipped the whole person for obedience. Both versions say the same thing: God wants obedience more than ritual offerings. Hebrews simply quotes the Greek version that first?century Jews were already using." You seem determined to find fault with the ancients and God..
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There is nothing incorrect in the Bible. It's a body indicating that Jesus was about to come into the world. His sacrifice ended the animal sacrificial system of the Old Testament.
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