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• All the musicians had kept their ranks, as David would have them, and his royal spokesmen Asaph, Heman and Idithun; all the door-keepers had remained on guard at their several gates, never released from duty for an instant; for these, too, their brother Levites must needs make ready the feast. (2 Chronicles 35, 15)

• Duty demands it of Israel; the God of Jacob has decreed it, (Psalms 80, 5)

• Duty’s path my choice, I keep thy bidding ever in remembrance. (Psalms 118, 30)

• should aught go amiss, and ill tidings come, every governor in his own province must know his duty without fear of confusion. (2 Maccabees 9, 24)

• Here is made known the secret of discernment; here men may learn the lesson of insight, the dictates of duty and right and honour. (Proverbs 1, 3)

• Duty and right and honour thou shalt discern, and see ever where the best course lies, (Proverbs 2, 9)

• Thine to choose a nobler course, keeping ever the path of duty; (Proverbs 2, 20)

• Duty well done, a whole nation becomes great; suffer whole peoples for guilt incurred. (Proverbs 14, 34)

• Idleness finds ever a hedge of thorns in its path; the man of duty walks on unhampered. (Proverbs 15, 19)

• To piety thou must needs cling, yet live by that other caution too; fear God, and thou hast left no duty unfulfilled.✻ (Ecclesiastes 7, 19)

• Seek not to know what is far above thee; search not beyond thy range; let thy mind ever dwell on the duty God has given thee to do, content to be ignorant of all his dealings besides. (Ecclesiasticus 3, 22)

• Be true to thy covenant with God; its words to thy own ears repeat; to that, and thy enjoined duty, inure thyself. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 21)