Sirach 34:25
Good News Translation
If you touch a dead body and then purify yourself by washing, but then go and touch it again, what good did the washing do?

New Revised Standard Version
The bread of the needy is the life of the poor; whoever deprives them of it is a murderer.

Contemporary English Version
The poor have so little food, that taking it is the same as committing murder.

New American Bible
The bread of charity is life itself for the needy; whoever withholds it is a murderer.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood.

Sirach 34:23
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither hath he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified for sins by the multitude of their sacrifices.

Sirach 34:24
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Sirach 34:26
He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour.

Sirach 34:27
He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.

Context
Sirach 34
24He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father. 25The bread of the needy, is the life of the poor: he that defraudeth them thereof, is a man of blood. 26He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour.…
Cross References
Sirach 34:23
The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked: neither hath he respect to the oblations of the unjust, nor will he be pacified for sins by the multitude of their sacrifices.

Sirach 34:24
He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor, is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presence of his father.

Sirach 34:26
He that taketh away the bread gotten by sweat, is like him that killeth his neighbour.

Sirach 34:27
He that sheddeth blood, and he that defraudeth the laborer of his hire, are brothers.



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

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