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Sirach 40:22

Your eye desires grace and beauty, but the green shoots of grain more than both.

Parallel Translations

LXXView canonical →
Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both the first sprouting of corn.
Brenton's Septuagint Translation
LXX2012View canonical →
Your eye desires favor and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.
Septuagint in American English (2012)
KJVView canonical →
Thine eye desireth favour and beauty: but more than both corn while it is green.
King James Version
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