Micah 6:7

Will the Lord accept a thousand rams, or ten thousand streams of olive oil? Should I give him my firstborn child as payment for my rebellion, my offspring – my own flesh and blood – for my sin? ¹ 

Jud 11:31,39; 1Sa 15:22; 2Ki 3:27; 2Ki 16:3; 2Ki 21:6; 2Ki 23:10; Job 29:6; Ps 10:8-13; Ps 50:9; Ps 51:16; Isa 1:11-15; Isa 40:16; Jer 7:21,22; Jer 7:31; Jer 19:5; Eze 16:20,21; Eze 23:37; Ho 6:6; Am 5:22; Phm 1:12

¹ tn Heb “the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) is often translated “soul,” but the word usually refers to the whole person; here “the sin of my soul” = “my sin.”