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Sirach 40:19
Good News Translation

19 Your name can be preserved if you have children or if you establish a city, but finding Wisdom is a better way.

Owning livestock and orchards will make you famous,[a] but it is better to have a wife you love.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 40:19 Hebrew but finding Wisdom...famous; Greek does not have these words.
  2. Sirach 40:19 Hebrew wife you love; Greek blameless wife.
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