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Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
    and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
    and not to hide yourself from your own kin?(A)

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Is it not to share your food with the hungry(A)
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter(B)
when you see the naked, to clothe(C) them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?(D)

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Never dine[a] with another man’s wife
    or revel with her at wine,
or your heart may turn aside to her,
    and in blood[b] you may plunge into destruction.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 9.9 Heb: Gk sit down
  2. 9.9 Heb: Gk by your spirit
'Sirach 9:9' not found for the version: New International Version.

28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(A)

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28 But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.(A)

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