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Excel in all that you do; bring no stain upon your honor.
24
At the time when you end the days of your life, in the hour of death, distribute your inheritance.
25
Fodder and a stick and burdens for a donkey; bread and discipline and work for a slave.
26
Set your slave to work, and you will find rest; leave his hands idle, and he will seek liberty.
27
Yoke and thong will bow the neck, and for a wicked slave there are racks and tortures.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.