1 Don’t be ashamed of these things,
and don’t sin to save face:

2 of the law of the Most High and his
covenant, of judgment to do justice to the ungodly,

3 of reckoning with a partner and with
travellers, of a gift from the inheritance
of friends,

4 of exactness of scales and weights,
of getting much or little,

5 of bargaining dealing with merchants,
of frequent correction of children,
and of making the back of an evil slave
to bleed.

6 A seal is good where an evil wife is.
Where there are many hands, lock
things up.

7 Whatever you hand over, let it be by
number and weight. In giving and receiving,
let all be in writing.

8 Don’t be ashamed to instruct the unwise
and foolish, and one of extreme old age
who contends with those who are young.
So you will be well instructed indeed
and approved in the sight of every
living man.

9 A daughter is a secret cause of wakefulness to a father.
Care for her takes away sleep in her youth, lest she
pass the flower of her age; when she is married,
lest she should be hated;

10 in her virginity, lest she should be
defiled and be with child in her father’s house;
when she has a husband, lest she should transgress;
and when she is married, lest she should be barren.

11 Keep a strict watch over a headstrong
daughter, lest she make you a laughingstock to
your enemies, a byword in the city and notorious
among the people, and shame you in public.

12 Don’t gaze at every beautiful body.
Don’t sit in the midst of women.

13 For from garments comes a moth,
and from a woman comes a woman’s
wickedness.