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Sirach 46:4-10 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

4. Who before him has stood so firmly? For the Lord himself led forward the enemies.

5. Was not the sun halted by his wrath, and one day made as if two?

6. He called upon the Most High Power, when the enemies assailed him on every side. And the great and holy God answered him with hailstones of exceedingly great force.

7. He made a violent assault against a hostile nation, and at his descent, he destroyed his adversaries,

8. so that the nations would acknowledge his power: that it is not easy to fight against God. And he followed the Almighty.

9. And in the days of Moses, he accomplished a work of mercy. He and Caleb, the son of Jephuneh, stood against the enemy, and forbid the people from sin, and broke their wicked murmuring.

10. And these two, having been appointed, were freed from peril, from foot soldiers numbering six hundred thousand, so as to lead them into their inheritance, into a land flowing with milk and honey.

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