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Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
    and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
    and not to hide yourself from your own kin?(A)

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Is it not to share your food with the hungry(A)
    and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter(B)
when you see the naked, to clothe(C) them,
    and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?(D)

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Tobit Becomes Blind

When the sun had set, I went and dug a grave and buried him.(A)

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'Tobit 2:7' not found for the version: New International Version.

And my neighbors laughed and said, “Is he still not afraid? He has already been hunted down to be put to death for doing this, and he ran away, yet here he is again burying the dead!”(A)

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'Tobit 2:8' not found for the version: New International Version.

On Mourning for the Dead

16 My child, let your tears fall for the dead,
    and as one in great pain begin the lament.
Lay out the body according to custom,
    and do not neglect the burial.(A)

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'Sirach 38:16' not found for the version: New International Version.

23 When you find any who are dead, commit them to the grave and mark it,[a] and I will give you the first place in my resurrection.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.23 Other ancient authorities read When I find your dead, I will raise them; I will watch for signs
'2 Esdras 2:23' not found for the version: New International Version.