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    he will serve his parents as his masters.[a]
Honor your father by word and deed,
    that a blessing from him may come upon you.
For a father’s blessing strengthens the houses of the children,
    but a mother’s curse uproots their foundations.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 3:7 In other authorities this line is preceded by Whoever fears the Lord will honor his father,

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