Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation It is because the Lord made them different by setting them apart as religious holidays and festivals. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment. Sirach 33:6A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him. Sirach 33:7 Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun? Sirach 33:9 And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour. Sirach 33:10 Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created. Context Sirach 33…7Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun? 8By the knowledge of the Lord they were distinguished, the sun being made, and keeping his commandment. 9And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour.… Cross References Sirach 33:6 A friend that is a mocker, is like a stallion horse: he neigheth under every one that sitteth upon him. Sirach 33:7 Why doth one day excel another, and one light another, and one year another year, when all come of the sun? Sirach 33:9 And he ordered the seasons, and holidays of them, and in them they celebrated festivals at an hour. Sirach 33:10 Some of them God made high and great days, and some of them he put in the number of ordinary days. And all men are from the ground, and out of the earth, from whence Adam was created. |
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