Proverbs 8:21-23

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²¹endowing with wealth those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.

Wisdom’s Part in Creation

²²The Lord created me at the beginning^[a] of his work,^[b]
the first of his acts of long ago.
²³Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 8:22 Or me as the beginning
Proverbs 8:22 Heb way

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