OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 27:17

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Love a friend, and keep faith with him; but if you reveal his secrets, you shall not follow him;

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Verse 17. Mind. In Egypt, those who disclosed a secret to the enemy, were condemned to have their tongues cut out. Diod. ii. 2.

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