Sirach 42:7
Good News Translation
Keep an accurate record of any deposits you make or of anything you give or receive.

New Revised Standard Version
When you make a deposit, be sure it is counted and weighed, and when you give or receive, put it all in writing.

Contemporary English Version
If you leave valuable items with someone for safekeeping, be sure to get a receipt, and keep records of everything you give or receive.

New American Bible
Of numbering every deposit, of recording all that is taken in and given out;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

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Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.

Sirach 42:5
Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.

Sirach 42:6
Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

Sirach 42:8
Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.

Sirach 42:9
The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful:

Context
Sirach 42
6Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife. 7Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in number, and weight: and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in. 8Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.…
Cross References
Sirach 42:5
Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.

Sirach 42:6
Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.

Sirach 42:8
Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the aged, that are judged by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.

Sirach 42:9
The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 42:6
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