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11 Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice, and a memorial portion of choice flour,
    and pour oil on your offering, as much as you can afford.[a]
12 Then give the physician his place, for the Lord created him;
    do not let him leave you, for you need him.
13 There may come a time when recovery lies in the hands of physicians,[b]

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  1. Sirach 38:11 Heb: Lat lacks as much as you can afford; Meaning of Gk uncertain
  2. Sirach 38:13 Gk in their hands

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