Now that which was prepared for me daily was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days abundant stores of all sorts of wine: yet for all this required not I the food allowance of the governor, because the bondage was heavy upon this people.

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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849

Wines. This was only produced, in abundance, on extraordinary occasions; for the people of the East do not drink wine at every feast, Ecclesiasticus xxxi. 17. (Calmet) Yearly. Septuagint, "Moreover, loaves of extortion I did not seek, because a hard servitude lay upon this people. "(Haydock)

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