OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 28:7

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Remember the commandments, and don’t be angry with your neighbor. Remember the covenant of the Highest, and overlook ignorance.

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Verse 7. In his commandments. Supply the sentence out of the Greek thus: Remember corruption, and death, and abide in the commandments, ( Challoner.) which condemn revenge. Exodus 23:4. Calmet.—Comp. “and do not rage or menace thy neighbour with destruction and death; yea, stick to the commandments. Be mindful of the precepts, and be not angry with thy neighbour; and of the covenant,” and so forth verse 9. Bible.

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