OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 29:11

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Allocate your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High and it will profit you more than gold.

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Verse 11. And delay. Or lit. “and for an alms, drag him not along.” Bible.—Let not the fraud of many deter thee from assisting the poor, for the sake of God and justice. Calmet.—Si fraudaris pecunia acquiris justitiam. Saint Ambrose Tob. iii. n. 11.

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