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There also you and your households shall eat before Yahweh your God, and (A)be glad in all that you send forth your hand to do, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

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11 and you shall (A)be glad before Yahweh your God, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female slaves and (B)the Levite who is within your gates and (C)the sojourner and the [a]orphan and the widow who are in your midst, in the place where Yahweh your God chooses for His name to dwell.

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  1. Deuteronomy 16:11 Or fatherless

12 I know that [a]there is (A)nothing better for them than to be glad and to do good in one’s lifetime; 13 moreover, that every man who eats and drinks and sees good in all his labor—it is the (B)gift of God.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 3:12 Lit there is nothing good in man except to be glad

18 Here is what I have seen to be (A)good, which is [a]beautiful: to eat, to drink, and to see good in all one’s labor in which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life which God has given him; for this is his (B)portion. 19 Furthermore, as for every man to whom (C)God has given riches and wealth, He has also (D)empowered him to eat from them and to take up his portion and be glad in his labor; this is the (E)gift of God. 20 For he will not remember much the days of his life because (F)God allows [b]him to occupy himself with the gladness of his heart.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 5:18 Or appropriate
  2. Ecclesiastes 5:20 As in Gr