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Don’t sin against a city’s inhabitants,
    and don’t bring yourself down
    in their estimation.[a]

Don’t repeat a sin,
    for you won’t be innocent
    even of committing it the first time.
Don’t say,
“He will look at the heap of my gifts,
    and when I make an offering
    to the Most High, he will accept it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 7:7 LXX in a crowd

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