4:1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael in Rages of Media:

4:2 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:

4:3 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:

4:4 Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb:

4:5 KJV [4] and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave:

4:6 KJV [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. KJV [6] For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them that live justly:

4:7 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:

4:8 If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly:

4:9 KJV [8] if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:

4:10 KJV [9] For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity:

4:11 KJV [10] Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness:

4:12 KJV [11] For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most High:

4:13 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. KJV [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:

4:14 KJV [13] for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine:

4:15 KJV [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:

4:16 KJV [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:

4:17 KJV [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:

4:18 KJV [17] Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked:

4:19 KJV [18] Ask counsel of all that are wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable:

4:20 KJV [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:

4:22 KJV [20] And now I signify this to they that I committed ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media: