1 Esdras 4:17-19

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¹⁷ Women make men’s clothes; they bring men glory; men cannot exist without women.^{(A) 18} If men gather gold and silver or any other beautiful thing and then see a woman lovely in appearance and beauty, ¹⁹ they let all those things go and gape at her and with open mouths stare at her, and all prefer her to gold or silver or any other beautiful thing.^(B)