<p class="poetry">I do not need to take<n id="1" /> a bull from your householdp> <p class="poetry">or goats from your sheepfolds.p>

<p class="poetry">Do I eat the flesh of bulls?p> <p class="poetry">Do I drink the blood of goats?<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">the lambs will be for your clothing,p> <p class="poetry">and the goats will be for the price of a field.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I will lead them off to be slaughteredp> <p class="poetry">like lambs, rams, and male goats.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will offer up to you fattened animals as burnt sacrifices,p> <p class="poetry">along with the smell of sacrificial rams.p> <p class="poetry">I will offer cattle and goats. (Selah)p>

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nahshon son of Amminadab.p>

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings: two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Nethanel son of Zuar.p>

A copy of the edict was to be presented as law throughout each and every province and made known to all peoples, so that the Jews might be prepared on that<n id="1" /> day to avenge themselves from their enemies.p>