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Ecclesiasticus 44:5-13 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

5. Such as by their skill sought out musical tunes, and published canticles of the scriptures.

6. Rich men in virtue, studying beautifulness: living at peace in their houses.

7. All these have gained glory in their generations, and were praised in their days.

8. They that were born of them have left a name behind them, that their praises might be related:

9. And there are some, of whom there is no memorial: who are perished, as if they had never been: and are become as if they had never been born, and their children with them.

10. But these were men of mercy, whose godly deeds have not failed:

11. Good things continue with their seed,

12. Their posterity are a holy inheritance, and their seed hath stood in the covenants.

13. And their children for their sakes remain for ever: their seed and their glory shall not be forsaken.

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