OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 16:2

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If they multiply, don’t delight in them unless the fear of the Lord is in them.

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Verse 2. Labours. All will end in ruin which springs from corruption. Bible.—Achab and Gedeon had seventy sons, but all were presently exterminated, while Abraham had a numerous posterity by his son Isaac.

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