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It brings pleasure like valuable olive oil
    that is poured on your head,
    and it goes down onto your beard.
They poured it onto Aaron's head and his beard,
    and it went down onto his clothes.[a]
It brings pleasure like the dew on Hermon.[b]
It makes the mountains of Zion become wet.[c]
That is the place where the Lord has promised to bless his people.
    He blesses them with life for ever.

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Footnotes

  1. 133:2 Aaron was Moses' brother. He was the first priest that God chose to serve him. When the Israelites chose a new priest, they poured olive oil on his head to show that he was a special servant of God.
  2. 133:3 Dew is water that comes onto the ground at night. It helps plants to grow when there is no rain. Hermon is in the north of the land of Israel.
  3. 133:3 Zion was the hill in Jerusalem where they built God's Temple.