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Sirach 31:14

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14

Don’t stretch your hand wherever it looks. Don’t thrust yourself with it into the dish.

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Verse 14. Wicked. Jealous or avaricious, as if the person feared lest he should have to prepare the like sumptuous entertainment. Proverbs 23:1. Judas blamed the profusion of Magdalene. John 12:5.

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