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10 Give up your faults and direct your hands aright,
    and cleanse your heart from all sin.
11 Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of fine flour,
    and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford.[a]
12 And give the physician his place, for the Lord created him;
    let him not leave you, for there is need of him.

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  1. Sirach 38:11 Heb: Vulgate omits as much as you can afford; Greek is obscure

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