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I purchased male and female servants and had other servants who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than all my predecessors in Jerusalem. I also amassed silver and gold for myself, as well as the treasure of kings and the provinces. I acquired male and female singers for myself, as well as the luxuries of humankind—vaults and vaults of them. [a] So I became far wealthier than all before me in Jerusalem, yet my wisdom stayed with me.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 2:9 The word shiddah appears only here in the Bible. In the Mishnah it means a type of chest.