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10     like an olive tree sprouting fruit,
    and like a cypress towering
    to the clouds.
11 When he put on his glorious robe
    and clothed himself
    with perfect splendor,[a]
    when he stepped up to the holy altar,
    he brought glory to the courts
    of the temple.

12 When he received the portions
of the sacrificial animals[b]
from the priests’ hands,
        standing beside the altar’s hearth, surrounded by a wreath of brothers,
        he was like a new cedar of Lebanon,
    and they surrounded him
    like palm-tree trunks.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 50:11 Heb and when he put on splendid clothes
  2. Sirach 50:12 Gk lacks of the sacrificial animals.

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