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Remember, my son, she endured many risks for your sake while you were in her womb. And when she dies, bury her beside me in one grave.

“Be faithful to the Lord all the days of your life, my son, and never succumb to the desire to sin or to transgress his commandments. Do good works all the days of your life, and do not walk in evil ways. For if you lead an honest life, you will be successful, as will all those who live uprightly.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Tobit 4:6 Before the fuller revelation of the Book of Wisdom and the New Testament concerning the retribution in the afterlife, the people of the Old Testament believed that virtue led to prosperity and sin brought about disaster (see Deut 28).