3. So then, every day, all that he was able to obtain, he bestowed on his fellow captive brothers, who were from his kindred.
4. And, when he was among the youngest of any in the tribe of Naphtali, he showed not so much as any childish behavior in his work.
5. And then, when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam, king of Israel, had made, he alone fled from the company of them all.
6. Yet he continued on to Jerusalem, to the temple of the Lord, and there he adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his first-fruits and his tithes.
7. So then, in the third year, he administered all his tithes to new converts and to new arrivals.
8. These and similar such things, even as a boy, he observed according to the law of God.
9. Truly, when he had become a man, he received as wife Anna of his own tribe, and he conceived a son by her, to whom he assigned his own name.
10. From his infancy, he taught him to fear God and to abstain from all sin.
11. Therefore, when, during the captivity, he had arrived with his wife and son at the city of Nineveh, with all his tribe,
12. (even though they all ate from the foods of the Gentiles,) he guarded his soul and never was contaminated with their foods.
13. And because he was mindful of the Lord with his whole heart, God gave him favor in the sight of Shalmaneser the king.