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The Psalms

Douay-Rheims · Douay / Challoner, 1750 · Scripture

A hundred and fifty songs, prayers and laments gathered over several centuries and sung in the Temple, and the prayer book of the Church ever since: the Rule of St Benedict has its monks recite all of them every week. Tradition gives most to David; their own headings also name Asaph, the sons of Core, Moses and Solomon.

44,844words of translated text
150parts
2,528sections
1750the translation

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Every run of seven words or more that appears both here and in another book on this shelf, merged into the longest passage they have in common. The Psalms shares wording with 2 of the other 55. This is quotation, or a common source, or one translator doing both — not a resemblance inferred from vocabulary.

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Translator: Douay / Challoner, 1750. Source: Gutenberg 8300.

The text here is the Douay-Rheims, Challoner revision of 1750, public domain, from Project Gutenberg ebook 8300, the complete Bible.

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