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Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
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Verse 18. Wines. This was only produced, in abundance, on extraordinary occasions; for the people of the East do not drink wine at every feast. Sirach 31:17. Calmet.—Yearly. Septuagint “Moreover, loaves of extortion I did not seek, because a hard servitude lay upon this people.” Bible.
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