Tobit 4
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1IN that day Tobit remembred the siluer, which he had deliuered to Gabael in Rages a citie of Media, 2And said with him self, I haue wished for death: wherefore do I not call for my sonne Tobias that I may admonish him before I dye? 3And when he had called him, he said, My sonne, after that I am dead, bury me, & despise not thy mother, but honour her all the dayes of thy life, & do that which shal please her, and anger her not. 4Remember, my sonne, how manie dangers she susteined when thou wast in her wombe, and when she dyeth, burye her by me in the same graue. 6My sonne, set our Lord God alwayes before thine eyes, & let not thy wil be set to sinne or to transgresse the commandements of God. Do vprightly all thy life long, and followe not the wayes of vnrighteousnes: for if thou deale truely, thy doings shal prosperously succede to thee, & to all them which liue iustely. 7Giue almes of thy substance: and when thou giuest almes, let not thine eye be enuious, nether turne thy face from anie poore, lest that God turne his face from thee. 8Giue almes according to thy substance: if thou haue but a litle, be not afraide to giue a litle almes. 9For thou laiest vp a good store for thy self against the day of necessitie, 10Because that almes doeth deliuer from death, & suffreth not to come into darknes. 11For almes is a good gift before the moste High to all them which vse it. 12Beware of all whoredome, my sonne, & chiefly take a wife of the sede of thy fathers, & take not a strange woman to wife which is not of thy fathers stocke: for we are the children of the Prophetes. Noe, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob are our fathers from the beginning. Remember my sonne that thei maryed wiues of their owne kinred, and were blessed in their children and their sede shal inherite the land. 13Now therefore, my sonne, loue thy brethren, & despise not in thine heart the sonnes & daughters of thy people in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction, and muche trouble, & in fiercenes is scarcetie, & great pouertie: for fiercenes is the mother of famine. 14Let not the wages of anie man, which hathe wroght for thee, tarie with thee, but giue him it out of hand: for if thou serue God, he wil also paye thee: be circumspect, my sonne, in all things that thou doest, and be wel instructed in all thy conuersation. 15Do that to no man which thou hatest: drinke not wine to make thee dronken, nether let dronkennes go with thee in thy iournay. 16Giue of thy bread to the hungry, & of thy garments to them that are naked, & of all thine abundance giue almes, & let not thine eye be enuious, when thou giuest almes. 17Powre out thy bread on the buryal of the iuste, but giue nothing to the wicked. 18Aske counsel alway of the wise, and despise not anie counsel that is profitable. 19Blesse thy Lord God alway, and desire of him that thy wayes may be made streight and that all thy purposes, and counsels may prosper: for euerie nation hathe not counsel: but the Lord giueth all good things, and he humbleth whome he wil, as he wil: now therefore, my sonne, remember my commandements, nether let them at anie time be put out of thy minde. 20Furthermore I signifie this to thee, that I deliuered ten talents to Gabael the sonne of Gabrias at Rages in Media. 21And feare not, my sonne, for asmuche as we are made poore: for thou hast manie things, if thou feare God, & flee from sinne, & do that thing which is acceptable vnto him.