Sirach 24:31
Good News Translation
I only intended to water my orchard and flower beds, but the canal soon became a river, and the river became a sea.

New Revised Standard Version
I said, “I will water my garden and drench my flower-beds.” And lo, my canal became a river, and my river a sea.

Contemporary English Version
bringing water for my flowers and fruit trees. But soon this canal became wide as a river and then as the sea.

New American Bible
I said, “I will water my plants, I will drench my flower beds.” Then suddenly this stream of mine became a river, and this river of mine became a sea.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

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They that explain me shall have life everlasting.

Sirach 24:29
They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

Sirach 24:30
He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

Sirach 24:32
All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.

Sirach 24:33
Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.

Context
Sirach 24
30He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin. 31They that explain me shall have life everlasting. 32All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.…
Cross References
Sirach 24:29
They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.

Sirach 24:30
He that hearkeneth to me, shall not be confounded: and they that work by me, shall not sin.

Sirach 24:32
All these things are the book of life, and the covenant of the most High, and the knowledge of truth.

Sirach 24:33
Moses commanded a law in the precepts of justices, and an inheritance to the house of Jacob, and the promises to Israel.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 24:30
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