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26 Take her yoke upon your neck;
    that your mind may receive her teaching.
For she is close to those who seek her,
    and the one who is in earnest finds her.(A)

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'Sirach 51:26' not found for the version: New International Version.

16     Thus says the Lord:
Stand by the earliest roads,
    ask the pathways of old,[a]
“Which is the way to good?” and walk it;
    thus you will find rest for yourselves.
    But they said, “We will not walk it.”(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:16 Pathways of old: history and the lessons to be learned from it.

16 This is what the Lord says:

“Stand at the crossroads and look;
    ask for the ancient paths,(A)
ask where the good way(B) is, and walk in it,
    and you will find rest(C) for your souls.
    But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

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