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.
14. And he gave him the power to go wherever he would want, having the freedom to do whatever he wished.
15. Therefore, he continued on to all who were in captivity, and he gave them helpful advice.
16. But when he had arrived at Rages, a city of the Medes, he had ten talents of silver, from that which he had been given in honor by the king.
17. And when, in the midst of the great tumult of his kindred, he saw the destitution of Gabael, who was from his tribe, he loaned him, under a written agreement, the aforementioned weight of silver.
18. In truth, after a long time, Shalmaneser the king died, while Sennacherib his son reigned in his place, and he held a hatred for the sons of Israel.