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Of the affair of companions and travellers, and of the gift of the inheritance of friends:
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Of exactness of balance and weights, of getting much or little:
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Of the corruption of buying, and of merchants, and of much correction of children, and to make the side of a wicked slave to bleed.
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Sure keeping is good over a wicked wife.
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Where there are many hands, shut up, and deliver all things in 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 aged, that are judged I by young men: and thou shalt be well instructed in all things, and well approved in the sight of all men living.
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The father waketh for the daughter when no man knoweth, and the care for her taketh away his sleep, when she is young, lest she pass away the flower of her age, and when she is married, lest she should be hateful:
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In her virginity, lest she should be corrupted, and be found with child in her father's house: and having a husband, lest she should misbehave herself, or at the least become barren.
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Keep a sure watch over a shameless daughter: lest at any time she make thee become a laughingstock to thy enemies, and a byword in the city, and a reproach among the people, and she make thee ashamed before all the multitude.
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Behold not everybody's beauty: and tarry not among women.
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For from garments cometh a moth, end from a woman the iniquity of a man.