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Epilogue

25 My whole being loathes two nations,
    the third is not even a people:[a]
26 The inhabitants of Seir[b] and Philistia,
    and the foolish people who dwell in Shechem.(A)

27 Wise instruction, appropriate proverbs,[c]
    I have written in this book—
I, Yeshua Ben Eleazar Ben Sira—
    as they poured forth from my heart’s understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. 50:25 Not even a people: the Samaritans.
  2. 50:26 Seir: Mount Seir in the territory of the Edomites. Shechem: a city in Samaria.
  3. 50:27 This colophon may have been the original ending of the book. It is unusual for a biblical writer to append his name.