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of the law of the Most High and His covenant, and of judgment to justify the ungodly;
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of reckoning with thy partners and travelers, or of the gift of the heritage of friends;
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of exactness of balance and weights, or of getting much or little;
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and of merchants' selling without profit, of much correction of children, and to make the side of an evil servant to bleed.
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Safekeeping is good where an evil wife is, and shut up where many hands are.
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Deliver all things by number and weight, and put all in writing that thou givest out or receivest in.
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Be not ashamed to inform the unwise and foolish, and the extreme aged that contendeth with those that are young; thus shalt thou be truly learned, and approved by all men living.
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The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away sleep: when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age; and being married, lest she should be hated;
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in her virginity, lest she should be defiled and gotten with child in her father's house; and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself; and when she is married, lest she should be barren.
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Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter, lest she make thee a laughingstock to thine enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and make thee ashamed before the multitude.
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Behold not every body's beauty, and sit not in the midst of women.