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Ecclesiastes 2:5

β€œI made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.”

Verse in context β€” Ecclesiastes 2

3

I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

4

I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.

5

I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.

6

I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

7

I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

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