9 If you help the poor, then later, when you are in need, others will help you.
10 Giving to the poor will keep you from going down into the dark world of the dead.
11 Helping the poor is one of the best offerings you can give to God Most High.
12 My son, don't sleep with any woman except your wife and don't marry a foreigner. Some of our ancestors were prophets, so keep our family line pure and choose a woman from our own tribe. Remember that our ancestors Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob all married their own relatives. God blessed their families with children and gave the land of Israel to their descendants.
13 Have love in your heart for the people of your own nation. Don't be proud and think you are too good to marry an Israelite woman. Pride like that will confuse and destroy you, just as laziness will make you poor and starving.
14 Don't ever fail to pay your hired workers at the end of the day. Serve God, and you will be rewarded. Have self-control in everything you do.
15 Don't treat others in ways that you would not want to be treated. Don't be a heavy drinker or ever get drunk.