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| [1]In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael in Rages of Media, |
[1]So when Tobias thought his prayer to be heard, that he might dye, he called vnto him his sonne Tobias, |
| [2]And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die? |
[2]And sayde vnto him: My sonne heare the wordes of my mouth, and lay them in thyne heart as a foundation. |
| [3]And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not. |
[3]When God taketh away my soule, burie thou my body: and holde thy mother in honour all the dayes of her life. |
| [4]Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave. |
[4]For thou oughtest to remember what and howe great peryls she suffred for thee in her wombe. |
| [5]My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness. |
[5]And when she also hath fulfilled the time of her life, burie her beside me. |
| [6]For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them that live justly. |
[6]Haue God in thy thought all the dayes of thy life, and beware lest at any time thou consent vnto sinne, and lest thou let slippe the commaundementes of the Lorde our God. |
| [7]Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee. |
[7]Geue almes of thy goods, and turne neuer thy face from the poore: and so shall it come to passe, that the face of the Lord shall not be turned away from thee. |
| [8]If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little: |
[8]Be mercifull after thy power. |
| [9]For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity. |
[9]If thou haue much, geue plenteously: if thou hast litle, do thy diligence gladly to geue of that litle: |
| [10]Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness. |
[10]For so gatherest thou thy selfe a good rewarde in the day of necessitie. |
| [11]For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most High. |
[11]For mercie deliuereth from al sinne and from death, and suffreth not the soule to come into darkenesse. |
| [12]Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father's tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land. |
[12]A great comfort is mercie before the hie God, vnto all them that shewe it. |
| [13]Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine. |
[13]My sonne, kepe thee wel from al whordome: and beside thy wife, suffer not thy selfe to knowe of sinne. |
| [14]Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he will also repay thee: be circumspect my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation. |
[14]Let neuer pride haue rule in thy minde nor in thy worde: for in pryde began all destruction. |
| [15]Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey. |
[15]Whosoeuer worketh any thing for thee, immediatly geue him his hire, and loke that thy hired seruauntes wages remayne not at all with thee. |
| [16]Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms: and let not thine eye be envious, when thou givest alms. |
[16]Loke that thou neuer do vnto another man, the thing that thou wouldest not another man shoulde do vnto thee. |
| [17]Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked. |
[17]Eate thy bread with the hungry and poore, and couer the naked with thy clothes. |
| [18]Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable. |
[18]Set thy bread and wine vpon the buriall of the righteous, and do not thou eate and drinke therof with the sinners. |
| [19]Bless the Lord thy God alway, and desire of him that thy ways may be directed, and that all thy paths and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel; but the Lord himself giveth all good things, and he humbleth whom he will, as he will; now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them be put out of thy mind. |
[19]Aske euer counsell at the wyse. |
| [20]And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media. |
[20]Be alway praysing of God, & beseche him that he will order thy wayes, and that whatsoeuer thou deuisest or takest in hand, it may remayne in him. |
| [21]And fear not, my son, that we are made poor: for thou hast much wealth, if thou fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that which is pleasing in his sight. |
[21]I certifie thee also my sonne, that when thou wast yet but a babe, I deliuered ten talentes of siluer vnto Gabelus at Rages a citie of the Medes, and his hande wryting haue I by me. |
| [22]And therfore seke some meanes howe thou mayest come by him, and receaue of him the sayd wayght of siluer, & geue him his hande wryting againe. |
| [23]My sonne, be not afrayde: trueth it is we leade here a poore life, but great good shall we haue if we feare God, and depart from all sinne, and do well. |