Ecclesiastes 5:6

Let not your mouth lead you1 into sin, and do not say before wthe messenger2 that it was xa mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the work of your hands?

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That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.

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There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler:

Numbers 15:25–26
And the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the people of Israel, and they shall be forgiven, because it was a mistake, and they have brought their offering, a food offering to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD for their mistake. And all the congregation of the people of Israel shall be forgiven, and the stranger who sojourns among them, because the whole population was involved in the mistake.


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