Sirach 34:4
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What will be made clean from something unclean? And what will be true of something false?
What can be made clean by the unclean? and what truth can come from that which is false?
What is unreal can no more produce something real than what is dirty can produce something clean.
How can the unclean produce what is clean? How can the false produce what is true?
From something unclean what can be clean? From something false what can be true?
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?
From an unclean thing what can be clean? And from something false what can be true?
From an unclean thing, what can be clean? And from something false, what can be true?
From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
From an unclean thing what will be made clean? And from something false what will be true?
What shall be cleansed of him that is unclean, and what true thing shall be said of a liar? [Of the unclean, what shall be cleansed, and of the liar, what sooth (or truth) shall be said?]
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