OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 39:5

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He will apply his heart to return early to the Lord who made him, and will make supplication before the Most High, and will open his mouth in prayer, and will ask for pardon for his sins.

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Verse 5. Men. Travelling was very requisite, (Calmet. 34:11) and history records the actions of the bad as well as the good, for the instruction of the public.

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