OLD TESTAMENT

Tobit 4:7

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Give alms from your possessions. When you give alms, don’t let your eye be envious. Don’t turn away your face from any poor man, and the face of God won’t be turned away from you.

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Verse 7. Substance. Be not liberal of another’s property. Greek adds, “and let not thy eye be envious, when thou givest alms.” Do it generously. Calmet.—The same doctrine of the reward of good works, occurs Daniel 4:24. Worthington.

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