Sirach 50:12 (WEB)
When he received the portions out of the priests’ hands, as he stood by the hearth of the altar, with his kindred like a garland around him, he was like a young cedar in Lebanon surrounded by the trunks of palm trees.
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“It is a golden altar, and a spiritual place of sacrifice;“For a contrite spirit is a sacrifice to God.”” — editor's note: βμο, θυσιαστριον. These two words are commonly used, the former in a bad, the other in a good sense, of Heathen, and Christian, or Jewish, altars respectively.…
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