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    they will serve their parents as their masters.[a]
Honour your father by word and deed,
    that his blessing may come upon you.
For a father’s blessing strengthens the houses of the children,
    but a mother’s curse uproots their foundations.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 3:7 In other ancient authorities this line is preceded by Those who fear the Lord honour their father,

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