Let Your Offering Be Pure Like Adam's Free of Theft

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 434:2

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Rabbi Berekhiah said: The Holy One, blessed be He, said, "Let your offering be like the offering of Adam the first man. Just as Adam the first man, who had everything in his domain, did not offer from the robbed and from the violently taken, so too you shall not offer from the robbed and from the violently taken. And if you do so, "it shall please the LORD better than an ox or a bullock that has horns and hoofs" (Psalms 69:32)."

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SacrificeAdam EveRighteousness

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