1 Look at how good and pleasing it is when families live together as one!
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How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along!
2 It is like expensive oil poured over the head, running down onto the beard— Aaron's beard!— which extended over the collar of his robes.
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It's like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard, Flowing down Aaron's beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes.
3 It is like the dew on Mount Hermon streaming down onto the mountains of Zion, because it is there that the LORD has commanded the blessing: everlasting life.
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It's like the dew on Mount Hermon flowing down the slopes of Zion. Yes, that's where God commands the blessing, ordains eternal life.
Published by permission. Originally published by NavPress in English as THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language copyright 2002 by Eugene Peterson. All rights reserved.