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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he might die, he called to him Tobias his son,",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them as a foundation in thy heart.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou shalt honour thy mother all the days of her life:",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for thee in her womb.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:4 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her by me.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 6,
      "text": "And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed thou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord our God.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:7 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 8,
      "text": "According to thy ability be merciful.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:8 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care even so to bestow willingly a little.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:9 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of necessity.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:10 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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    {
      "verse": 12,
      "text": "Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all them that give it.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:12 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 13,
      "text": "Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:13 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from it all perdition took its beginning.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:14 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 15,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:15 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 16,
      "text": "See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done to thee by another.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:16 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 17,
      "text": "Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments cover the naked,",
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      "verse": 18,
      "text": "Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:18 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 19,
      "text": "Seek counsel always of a wise man.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:19 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 20,
      "text": "Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and that all thy counsels may abide in him.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:20 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 21,
      "text": "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:",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:21 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 22,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:22 (Douay-Rheims)"
    },
    {
      "verse": 23,
      "text": "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.",
      "citation": "Tobias 4:23 (Douay-Rheims)"
    }
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