4:7. Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord shall not be turned from thee. 4:8. According to thy ability be merciful. 4:9. If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little. 4:10. For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity. 4:11. For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness. 4:12. Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it. 4:13. Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime. 4:14. Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning. 4:15. If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his hire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all. 4:16. See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another. 4:17. Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked, 4:18. Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked. 4:19. Seek counsel always of a wise man. 4:20. Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may abide in him. 4:21. I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver, while thou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, and I have a note of his hand with me: 4:22. Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of him the foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand. 4:23. 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 that which is good. Tobias Chapter 5 Young Tobias seeking a guide for his journey, the angel Raphael, in shape of a man, undertaketh this office. 5:1. Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me. 5:2. But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither. 5:3. Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it. 5:4. But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live. 5:5. Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk. 5:6. And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man? 5:7. But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?