This is a key important fact overlooked by most?
"For in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I did not speak to your fathers or command them concerning burnt offerings and sacrifices. 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.’"
Jeremiah 7:22-23 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/jer.7.22-23.ESV
This is an overarching theme thought the Hebrew Bible and addressed in the prayer of Jesus.
Example:
For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Hosea 6:6 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/hos.6.6.ESV
From the prayer of Jesus:
“I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them.
John 17:6-10 ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.17.6-10.ESV
https://bible.com/bible/59/jhn.17.6-10.ESV
