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Read›Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)›Chapter 50
In 4 translations
- KJV
- In his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as the sea, was covered with plates of brass:
- WEB
- In his days, a water cistern was dug, the brazen vessel like the sea in circumference.
- DRC
- In his days the wells of water flowed out, and they were filled as the sea above measure.
- LXXE
- in his days the cistern to receive water, being in compass as the sea, was covered with plates of brass:
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br
- Ἐν ἡμέραις αὐτοῦ ἠλαττώθη ἀποδοχεῖον ὑδάτων, χαλκὸς ὡσεὶ θαλάσσης τὸ περίμετρον·