18. Set out your bread and your wine at the burial of a just man, and do not eat and drink from it with sinners.
19. Always seek the counsel of a wise man.
20. Bless God at all times. And petition him that he direct your ways and that all your counsels may remain in him.
21. And now, I reveal to you, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver, while you were still a young child, to Gabael, in Rages, a city of the Medes, and I have his written agreement with me.