OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 19:10

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Have you heard something? Let it die with you. Be brave: it will not make you burst!

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Verse 10. Burst thee. Like poison, or as new wine ( Calmet.) does a leathern bottle. Bible.—This expression well implies the eagerness which some manifest to divulge a secret injurious to their neighbour. Calmet.

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