OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 7:13

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13

Refuse to utter a lie, for that habit results in no good.

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Verse 13. Devise. Lit. “plough.” But Hebrew Charasch, means also to machinate.—Brother. We cannot hence infer, with Grotius, that the Jews allowed themselves to deceive strangers. Calmet.

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