OLD TESTAMENT

Sirach 7:33

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A gift has grace in the sight of every living man. Don’t withhold grace for a dead man.

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Verse 33. Priests. Greek “priest, and give him the portion which is enjoined thee, the first-fruit, and for negligence, and the gift of the shoulders, and the,” and so forth verse 35. Bible.—Arms. That is, with all thy power: or else by arms (brachiis) are here signified the right shoulders of the victims, which by the law fell to the share of the priests. See verse 35. ( Challoner.) Exodus 29:28. Leviticus 7:22.

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