Sirach 24:15
Good News Translation
My breath was the spicy smell of cinnamon, of sweet perfume and finest myrrh, of stacte, onycha, and galbanum, the fragrant incense in the Sacred Tent.

New Revised Standard Version
Like cassia and camel’s thorn I gave forth perfume, and like choice myrrh I spread my fragrance, like galbanum, onycha, and stacte, and like the odor of incense in the tent.

Contemporary English Version
My perfume smelled sweet like the spices cinnamon and cane mixed with fine myrrh, or like smoke in the sacred tent from the incense of galbanum, onycha, and stacte.

New American Bible
Like cinnamon and fragrant cane, like precious myrrh I gave forth perfume; Like galbanum and onycha and mastic, like the odor of incense in the holy tent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.

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And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.

Sirach 24:13
And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.

Sirach 24:14
From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him.

Sirach 24:16
And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.

Sirach 24:17
I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.

Context
Sirach 24
14From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him. 15And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem. 16And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.…
Cross References
Sirach 24:13
And he said to me: Let thy dwelling be in Jacob, and thy inheritance in Israel, and take root in my elect.

Sirach 24:14
From the beginning, and before the world, was I created, and unto the world to come I shall not cease to be, and in the holy dwelling place I have ministered before him.

Sirach 24:16
And I took root in an honourable people, and in the portion of my God his inheritance, and my abode is in the full assembly of saints.

Sirach 24:17
I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 24:14
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