Sirach 24:20
Good News Translation
You will remember me as sweeter than honey, better than honey from the comb.

New Revised Standard Version
For the memory of me is sweeter than honey, and the possession of me sweeter than the honeycomb.

Contemporary English Version
I am sweeter than honey straight from the honeycomb, and the sweet taste will remain even when you have finished.

New American Bible
You will remember me as sweeter than honey, better to have than the honeycomb.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh:

Sirach 24:18
I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:

Sirach 24:19
As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted.

Sirach 24:21
And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.

Sirach 24:22
I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace.

Context
Sirach 24
19As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted. 20I gave a sweet smell like cinnamon, and aromatical balm: I yielded a sweet odour like the best myrrh: 21And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.…
Cross References
Sirach 24:18
I was exalted like a palm tree in Cades, and as a rose plant in Jericho:

Sirach 24:19
As a fair olive tree in the plains, and as a plane tree by the water in the streets, was I exalted.

Sirach 24:21
And I perfumed my dwelling as storax, and galbanum, and onyx, and aloes, and as the frankincense not cut, and my odour is as the purest balm.

Sirach 24:22
I have stretched out my branches as the turpentine tree, and my branches are of honour and grace.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 24:19
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