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Help the poor for the commandment's sake, and in their need do not send them away empty-handed.
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Lose your silver for the sake of a brother or a friend, and do not let it rust under a stone and be lost.
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Lay up your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High, and it will profit you more than gold.
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Store up almsgiving in your treasury, and it will rescue you from every disaster;
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better than a stout shield and a sturdy spear, it will fight for you against the enemy.
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A good person will be surety for his neighbor, but the one who has lost all sense of shame will fail him.
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Do not forget the kindness of your guarantor, for he has given his life for you.
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A sinner wastes the property of his guarantor,
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and the ungrateful person abandons his rescuer.
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Being surety has ruined many who were prosperous, and has tossed them about like waves of the sea; it has driven the influential into exile, and they have wandered among foreign nations.
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The sinner comes to grief through surety; his pursuit of gain involves him in lawsuits.