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23 Do you have children? Instruct them.
    Train them to be obedient[a]
    from their youth.
24 Do you have daughters?
Be attentive to their chastity,[b]
    and don’t be too cheerful with them.[c]
25 Give a daughter in marriage,
and you will have completed a great deed,
    but present her
    to an understanding husband.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 7:23 LXX Bend their necks
  2. Sirach 7:24 LXX body
  3. Sirach 7:24 LXX Don’t brighten your face toward them.

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