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I made pools to water the forest of growing trees.
I bought male and female slaves.
    In addition, slaves were born in my household.
    I owned more herds and flocks
    than anyone in Jerusalem before me.
I also gathered silver and gold for myself.
    I gathered the treasures of kings and provinces.
    I provided myself with male and female singers
    and the pleasures men have with one concubine[a] after another.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:8 A concubine is considered a wife except she has fewer rights under the law.

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