Sirach 46:12
Good News Translation
May their memory be honored! May these whom we honor spring from the grave to new life in their descendants!

New Revised Standard Version
May their bones send forth new life from where they lie, and may the names of those who have been honored live again in their children!

Contemporary English Version
Though they are now dead, we pray their good names will be honored by the way their descendants live.

New American Bible
May their bones flourish with new life where they lie, and their names receive fresh luster in their children!

Douay-Rheims Bible
That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to obey the holy God.

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That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to obey the holy God.

Sirach 46:10
And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger from among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Sirach 46:11
And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance:

Sirach 46:13
Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not corrupted: who turned not away from the Lord,

Sirach 46:14
That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up out of their place,

Context
Sirach 46
11And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance: 12That all the children of Israel might see, that it is good to obey the holy God. 13Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not corrupted: who turned not away from the Lord,…
Cross References
Sirach 46:10
And they two being appointed, were delivered out of the danger from among the number of six hundred thousand men on foot, to bring them into their inheritance, into the land that floweth with milk and honey.

Sirach 46:11
And the Lord gave strength also to Caleb, and his strength continued even to his old age, so that he went up to the high places of the land, and his seed obtained it for an inheritance:

Sirach 46:13
Then all the judges, every one by name, whose heart was not corrupted: who turned not away from the Lord,

Sirach 46:14
That their memory might be blessed, and their bones spring up out of their place,



(Sir. Si Ecclesiasticus eccles eccl)

Sirach 46:11
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