Sirach 45:26
Good News Translation
Now praise the Lord, who is good, who has crowned you with glory! May he give you wisdom to judge his people fairly, so that their success and your authority may continue for all time to come.

New Revised Standard Version
And now bless the Lord who has crowned you with glory. May the Lord grant you wisdom of mind to judge his people with justice, so that their prosperity may not vanish, and that their glory may endure through all their generations.

Contemporary English Version
Give thanks to the Lord who has given glory to you priests. I pray he will give you wisdom so you will make fair decisions when you judge his people. Then they will be successful and famous forever.

New American Bible
May he grant you wisdom of heart to govern his people in justice, Lest the benefits you confer should be forgotten, or your authority, throughout all time.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed.

Sirach 45:24
He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of fire.

Sirach 45:25
And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth.

Sirach 45:27
But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he hath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and inheritance.

Sirach 45:28
Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, by imitating him in the fear of the Lord:

Context
Sirach 45
25And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth. 26He prepared them bread in the first place unto fulness: for the sacrifices also of the Lord they shall eat, which he gave to him, and to his seed. 27But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he hath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and inheritance.…
Cross References
Sirach 45:24
He wrought wonders upon them, and consumed them with a flame of fire.

Sirach 45:25
And he added glory to Aaron, and gave him an inheritance, and divided unto him the firstfruits of the increase of the earth.

Sirach 45:27
But he shall not inherit among the people in the land, and he hath no portion among the people: for he himself is his portion and inheritance.

Sirach 45:28
Phinees the son of Eleazar is the third in glory, by imitating him in the fear of the Lord:



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 45:25
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