OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 7:15

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15

Don’t hate hard labor or farm work, which the Most High has created.

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Verse 15. Repeat not. Make not much babbling by repetition of words, but aim more at fervour of heart. Challoner.—A supplication ought to be drawn up in a concise manner. Bible.—Judges and orators should speak with due reserve. Prayer must be unceasing: yet many words must not be used to inform God of our wants. Our Saviour seems to allude to this text. Matthew 6:7.

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