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And now, my child, love your kindred, and don’t scorn your kindred and the sons and the daughters of your people in your heart, to take a wife of them; for in scornfulness is destruction and much trouble, and in idleness is decay and great lack; for idleness is the mother of famine.
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Verse 13. Crime, or any commerce with another. Bible.—Greek and Hebrew add, conformable to the law, (Exodus 34:16.) “And take not a strange woman, who may not be of thy father’s tribe, as we are the sons of the prophets, Noe, &c … All these married from among their brethren, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.” Bible.
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