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.