# Sirach 28:17

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

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/28/17
- Book: [Sirach](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach)
- Chapter: [Sirach 28](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/sirach/28)
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The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.