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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 the Lord, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old?
⁷Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of 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 the Lord 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 when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; (Heb. 10:8)

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Heb. 9:9,13• ⁹Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
¹³For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: (Heb. 9:9,13)

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Psa. 50:8‑12• ⁸I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
⁹I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.
¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
¹¹I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
¹²If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof. (Psa. 50:8‑12)

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Psa. 51:16• ¹⁶For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. (Psa. 51:16)

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Isa. 1:11‑15• ¹¹To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: 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 tread my courts?
¹³Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even 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 is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, 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• ²¹Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.
²²For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: (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 understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more than all whole 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 standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: (Heb. 10:11)

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Hos. 14:2• ²Take with you words, and turn to the Lord: 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• ²⁹The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. (John 1:29)

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Rom. 11:27• ²⁷For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins. (Rom. 11:27)

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1 John 3:5• ⁵And ye know that he was manifested to 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.