# Sirach 11:3

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

> The King James Version (1769), including the Apocrypha, is in the public domain in the United States. Letters patent restrict printing this translation in the United Kingdom.

- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/11/3
- Book: [Sirach](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach)
- Chapter: [Sirach 11](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/11)
- Background: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach#background-and-history
- JSON: https://apologetics.wiki/api/apocrypha/sirach/11/3
- Previous: [Sirach 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/11/2)
- Next: [Sirach 11:4](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/11/4)

The bee is little among such as fly; but her fruit is the chief of sweet things.