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14 I grew tall like a palm tree in En-gedi,[a]
    and like rosebushes in Jericho;
like a fair olive tree in the field,
    and like a plane tree beside water[b] I grew tall.
15 Like cassia and camel’s thorn I gave forth perfume,
    and like choice myrrh I spread my fragrance,
like galbanum, onycha, and stacte,
    and like the odor of incense in the tent.
16 Like a terebinth I spread out my branches,
    and my branches are glorious and graceful.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 24:14 Other ancient authorities read on the beaches
  2. Sirach 24:14 Other ancient authorities omit beside water

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