Tobit - chapter 4 (excerpt)

Excerpt that is is an intergenerational testament
4: 3 - 21 (translated by Edgar Goodspeed)
So Tobit called his son Tobias, and said, "My boy, when I die, bury me, and do not neglect your mother; provide for her as long as you live; do what is pleasing to her, and do not grieve her in anything.  Remember, my boy, that she faced many dangers for you before your birth, and when she dies, bury her beside me in one grave.  All your life, my boy, remember the Lord, our God; do not consent to sin and transgress His commands.  Act uprightly all your life, and do not walk in the ways of wrongdoing.  For if you do right, prosperity will attend your undertakings.  To all who act uprightly, give charity from your property, and do not let your eye begrudge what you give to charity.  Do not turn your face away from any poor person, and God's face will not be turned away from you.  Give to charity in proportion to what you have; if you have little, do not be afraid to give sparingly to charity, for then you will lay up a good treasure for yourself against a day of adversity; for charity will save you from death, and keep you from going down into darkness.  Charity is a good offering in the sight of the Most high for all who give it.  My boy, beware of any immorality.  First, take a wife who is of the stock of your forefathers; do not marry an alien, who does not belong to your father's tribe, for we are the sons of the prophets.  Remember, my boy, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our forefathers of old, all married wives from among their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their posterity will possess the land.  Now, my boy, love your kindred, and do not disdain your brothers and the sons and daughters of your people and refuse to marry one of them.  For such disdain leads to ruin and great distress, and worthlessness brings loss and great want, for worthlessness is the mother of famine.  The wages of any man who works for you, you must not retain overnight, but you must pay him immediately.  If you serve God, you will be rewarded.  Take care, my boy, in all that you do, and be well disciplined in all your counduct.  Do not do to anyone else what you hate.  Do not drink wine to the point of intoxication; drunkenness must not go with you on your way.  Give some of your bread to the hungry and of your clothes to the naked.  Give all your surplus to charity, and do not let your eye begrudge what you give to charity.  Scatter your bread on the graves of the upright, but do not give to sinners.  Ask advice of every wise man, and do not think lightly of any useful advice.  Always bless the Lord God, and ask Him to make your ways straight and your paths and plans prosper.  For no heathen nation possesses understanding, but the Lord gives all good things, and He humbles whoever He pleases, as He chooses.  Now, my boy, remember my commands; do not let them be blotted from your mind.  And now I must inform you of the ten talents of silver that I deposited with Gabael, son of Gabrias, in Ragae in Media.  Do not be afraid, my boy, because we have become poor.  You are well off, if you fear God and refrain from any sin, and do what is pleasing in His sight."