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Sirach 7:24-26
Common English Bible
Sirach 7:24-26
Common English Bible
24 Do you have daughters?
Be attentive to their chastity,[a]
and don’t be too cheerful with them.[b]
25 Give a daughter in marriage,
and you will have completed a great deed,
but present her
to an understanding husband.
26 Do you have a wife who is a soul mate?[c]
Don’t divorce her,
and don’t trust yourself to a woman
whom you hate.
Footnotes
- Sirach 7:24 LXX body
- Sirach 7:24 LXX Don’t brighten your face toward them.
- Sirach 7:26 LXX like your soul; Heb whom you abhor
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