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Tobit

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Father Tells Tobias to Honor His Mother

1 THEREFORE when Tobias thought his prayer to be heard that he might have died, he called to him Tobias his son,📜💬📚

2 and said to him: Hear my son the words of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation in thy heart.📜💬📚

3 When God shall take my soul, bury my body: & thou shalt do honour to thy mother all the days of her life:📜💬📚

4 for thou must be mindful what perils, and how great she suffered for thee in her womb.📜💬📚

5 And when she also shall have accomplished the time of her life, bury her beside me.📜💬📚

Father Teaches Generosity

6 And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and beware thou consent not to sin at any time, and pretermit the precepts of our Lord God.📜💬📚

7 Of thy substance give alms, & turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that neither the face of our Lord shall be turned from thee.📜💬📚

8 As thou shalt be able, so be merciful.📜💬📚

9 If thou have much, give aboundantly: if thou have little, study to impart also a little willingly.📜💬📚

10 For thou doest treasure up to thy self a good reward in the day of necessity.📜💬📚

11 Because alms delivereth from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.📜💬📚

12 Great confidence before God most high shall alms be to all them that do it.📜💬📚

Avoid Sexual Sin and Pride

13 Take heed to thy self my son of all fornication, and beside thy wife never abide to know crime,📜💬📚

14 Never permit pride to rule in thy word: for in it all perdition took his beginning.📜💬📚

15 Whosoever hath wrought any thing for thee, pay him his hire immediately, and let not the hire of thy hired servant remain with thee at all.📜💬📚

16 That which thou hatest to be done to thee by an other, see thou do it not to an other at any time.📜💬📚

17 Eat thy bread with the hungry & needy, and of thy garments cover the naked.📜💬📚

Drink Not with the Wicked

18 Set thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with sinners.📜💬📚

19 Seek counsel always of a wise man.📜💬📚

20 At all time bless God: and desire of him, that he direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels remain in him.📜💬📚

Father Tells of Gabelus

21 I tell thee also my son that I gave ten talents of silver, whiles thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, & I have a bill of his hand with me:📜💬📚

22 and therefore enquire how thou mayst come to him, and receive of him the foresaid weight of silver, and restore him the bill of his hand.📜💬📚

23 Fear not my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have many good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do well.📜💬📚