10 because alms-giving delivers from death, and doesn’t allow you to come into darkness. (WEB) 11 Alms is a good gift in the sight of the Most High for all that give it. (WEB) 12 Beware, my child, of all fornication, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land. (WEB)
Tobit 4:10–12
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Tobit 12:8–10
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Sirach 17:21–23
21 But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship, neither left nor forsook them, but spared them. (KJV) 22 With him the alms of a man is as a signet. He will keep a man’s kindness as the pupil of the eye. (WEB) 23 Afterwards he will rise up and repay them, and give their… (WEB)
Sirach 29:11–13
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Proverbs 3:26–28
26 for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from the snare. 27 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act. 28 Do not tell your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I will provide”— when you already have the means.
Testament of Zebulun 2:15–17
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Sirach 7:32–34
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Sirach 3:29–31
29 The heart of the prudent will understand a proverb. A wise man desires the ear of a listener. (WEB) 30 Water will quench a flaming fire; almsgiving will make atonement for sins. (WEB) 31 He who repays good turns is mindful of that which comes afterward. In the time of his fallin… (WEB)
Sirach 14:12–14
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