I have made me gardens and [a]orchards, and planted in them trees of all fruit.

I have made me cisterns of water, to water therewith the woods that grow with trees.

I have gotten servants and maids, and had children born in the [b]house: also I had great Possession of beeves and sheep above all that were before me in Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:5 Hebrew, paradises.
  2. Ecclesiastes 2:7 Meaning, of the servants or slaves, which he had bought: so the children born in their servitude, were the masters.

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