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Say to her, ‘You produce gold and silver and bronze, and also iron and lead and clay;
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but silver is more abundant than gold, and bronze than silver, and iron than bronze, and lead than iron, and clay than lead.’
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Judge therefore which things are precious and desirable, those that are abundant or those that are rare?”
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I said, “O sovereign Lord, what is plentiful is of less worth, for what is more rare is more precious.”
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He answered me and said, “Consider within yourself[p] what you have thought, for the person who has what is hard to get rejoices more than the person who has what is plentiful.
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