Ben Sira 49:14-16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
The Earliest Patriarchs
14 Few on earth have been created like Enoch;[a]
he also was taken up bodily.(A)
15 Was ever a man born like Joseph?
Even his dead body was provided for.(B)
16 Glorious, too, were Shem and Seth and Enosh;
but beyond that of any living being was the splendor of Adam.(C)
Footnotes
- 49:14–16 The patriarchs here mentioned were glorious because of their spirit of religion, i.e., their profound reverence for God and obedience to him. The splendor of Adam: suggests his direct origin from God (Gn 1:26–27; 2:7).
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