OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 32:7

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Speak, young man, if you are obliged to, but no more than twice, and only if asked.

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Verse 7. Wine was not used at all meals. Calmet.—After they were ended, the pagans sung in honour of Bacchus, or of great mane. Plut. Sym.—But the Jews directed their hymns to God. Matthew 26:30. Philo, Contemp.

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