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The memory of the just serves as blessing,
    but the name of the wicked will rot.[a]

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  1. 10:7 The name of the righteous continues to be used after their death in blessings such as “May you be as blessed as Abraham,” but the wicked, being enemies of God, do not live on in anyone’s memory. Their names rot with their bodies.

13 Because of her I shall have immortality
    and leave to those after me an everlasting memory.(A)

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