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Heb. 10:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sinsp.

Mic. 6:6‑8• ⁶Wherewith shall I come before Jehovah, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
⁷Will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousand rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?
⁸He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? (Mic. 6:6‑8)

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Heb. 10:8• ⁸Above saying, Sacrifice and offering and whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou willedst not nor hadst pleasure in (the which are offered according to the law), (Heb. 10:8)

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Heb. 9:9,13• ⁹the which [is] a parable for the time present, according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices, unable as to conscience to perfect the worshipper,
¹³For if the blood of goats and bulls and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled sanctifieth for the purity of the flesh, (Heb. 9:9,13)

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Psa. 50:8‑12• ⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices{HR}And thy burnt offerings continually before me.
⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house,{HR}[Nor] he-goats out of thy folds.
¹⁰For mine [is] every beast of the forest,{HR}Cattle upon a thousand hills ;
¹¹I know every bird of the mountains,{HR}And the moving creature of the field [is] mine.
¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee;{HR}For mine [is] the world and its fullness. (Psa. 50:8‑12)

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Psa. 51:16• ¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice: else would I give it;{HR}In burnt offering thou dost not take pleasure. (Psa. 51:16)

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Isa. 1:11‑15• ¹¹To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith Jehovah: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats.
¹²When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
¹³Bring no more vain oblations: incense is an abomination unto me; new moon and Sabbath, the calling of assemblies, — I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn meeting.
¹⁴Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].
¹⁵And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. (Isa. 1:11‑15)

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Isa. 66:3• ³He that killeth an ox slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb breaketh a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation [is as] swine's blood; he that burneth incense [is as] he that blesseth an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations, (Isa. 66:3)

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Jer. 6:20• ²⁰To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me. (Jer. 6:20)

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Jer. 7:21‑22• ²¹{i}Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings to your sacrifices, and eat the flesh.{/i}
²²{i}For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them concerning burnt-offerings and sacrifices, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt;{/i} (Jer. 7:21‑22)

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Hos. 6:6• ⁶For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. (Hos. 6:6)

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Amos 5:21‑22• ²¹I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
²²Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. (Amos 5:21‑22)

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Mark 12:33• ³³and to love him with all the heart, and with all the intelligence, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love neighbour as oneself, is more than the burnt-offerings and sacrifices. (Mark 12:33)

take.There were essential defects in these sacrifices.

1st.--They were not of the same nature with those who sinned.

2nd.--They were not of sufficient value to make satisfaction for the affronts done to the justice and government of God.

3rd.--The beasts offered up under the law could not consent to put themselves in the sinner's room and place.

The atoning sacrifice must be one capable of consenting, and must voluntarily substitute himself in the sinner's stead:

Christ did so.

Heb. 10:11• ¹¹And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, the which can never take away sins; (Heb. 10:11)

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Hos. 14:2• ²Take with you words, and turn to Jehovah: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously; so will we render the calves of our lips. (Hos. 14:2)

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John 1:29• ²⁹On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world! (John 1:29)

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Rom. 11:27• ²⁷And this [is] for them the covenant on my part, when I shall have taken away their sins.” (Rom. 11:27)

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1 John 3:5• ⁵And ye know that he was manifested that he might take away our sins; and in him is no sin. (1 John 3:5)

• Christ's work is God's intervention to do away with the believer's guilt. This He has done once and forever. (“Hebrews 10:1-4” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

For blood of bulls and goats is incapable of taking away sins.

W. Kelly Translation

For blooda of bulls and goats [is] incapable of taking away sins.

WK Translation Notes

Here it is "blood," not "the" blood.