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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 38
In 4 translations
- KJV
- Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:
- WEB
- Without these no city would be inhabited. Men wouldn’t reside as foreigners or walk up and down there.
- DRC38:36
- Without these a city is not built. And they shall not dwell, nor walk about therein, and they shall not go up into the assembly.
- LXXE
- Without these cannot a city be inhabited: and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down:
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἄνευ αὐτῶν οὐκ οἰκισθήσεται πόλις, καὶ οὐ παροικήσουσιν, οὐδὲ περιπατήσουσι·
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 38:36-37 in some Bibles
- 38:32a in most Bibles
- 38:32b in most Bibles