Sirach 3:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁷    they will serve their parents as their masters.^[a]
⁸Honour your father by word and deed,
    that his blessing may come upon you.
⁹For a father’s blessing strengthens the houses of the children,
    but a mother’s curse uproots their foundations.

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Sirach 3:7 In other ancient authorities this line is preceded by Those who fear the Lord honour their father,

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