Sirach 24:16
Good News Translation
Like an oak I spread out my branches, magnificent and graceful.

New Revised Standard Version
Like a terebinth I spread out my branches, and my branches are glorious and graceful.

Contemporary English Version
I spread out my branches, beautiful and graceful, like a giant oak,

New American Bible
“I spread out my branches like a terebinth, my branches so glorious and so graceful.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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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 24:14
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 24:15
And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.

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

Sirach 24:18
I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:

Context
Sirach 24
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. 17I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress tree on mount Sion.…
Cross References
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 24:15
And so was I established in Sion, and in the holy city likewise I rested, and my power was in Jerusalem.

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

Sirach 24:18
I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 24:15
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