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Ecclesiasticus 47:11

And he set singers before the altar, and by their voices he made sweet melody.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine)
et stare fecit cantores contra altare, et in sono eorum dulces fecit modos.
Septuagint (Swete)
Verse numbering differs here, so nothing is shown rather than the wrong verse.

Haydock's commentary

Altar. Of holocausts. Moses had not appointed singing.

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.