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1 Esdras 9:53-55
Wycliffe Bible
1 Esdras 9:53-55
Wycliffe Bible
53 And the deacons [or the Levites] denounced (or And the Levites announced), or showed, openly to all men, saying, This day is holy; will ye not (to) be sorry (or resolve not to be sorrowful).
54 And then all they went away, to eat, and to drink, and to have plenty of meat (or food), and to give gifts to them that have not, whereof to eat plenteously. [And all went away, to eat, and to drink, and to have plenty of meat, and to give gifts to them that have not, that they plenteously eat (too).]
55 Greatly forsooth they be enhanced in the words, with the which they be taught. And all they were gathered into Jerusalem, to make solemn the gladness, after the testament of the Lord God of Israel.
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2001 by Terence P. Noble