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like roses in the days of first fruits, like lilies by a spring of water, like a green shoot on Lebanon on a summer day;
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like fire and incense in the censer, like a vessel of hammered gold studded with all kinds of precious stones;
10
like an olive tree laden with fruit, and like a cypress towering in the clouds.
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When he put on his glorious robe and clothed himself in perfect splendor, when he went up to the holy altar, he made the court of the sanctuary glorious.
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When he received the portions from the hands of the priests, as he stood by the hearth of the altar with a garland of brothers around him, he was like a young cedar on Lebanon surrounded by the trunks of palm trees.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.