3. Respect widows who are truly widows.
4. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to treat their own house reverently, and to repay their parents. For this is good and acceptable before Elohim.
5. And she who is truly a widow, and left alone, trusts in Elohim and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.
6. But she who is living in luxury is dead while she lives.
7. And command these matters, in order for them to be blameless.
8. And if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the belief and is worse than an unbeliever.
9. Do not enrol a widow unless she is over sixty years of age, having been the wife of one man,
10. well reported for good works, if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the feet of the set-apart ones, if she has assisted the afflicted, if she has closely followed every good work.
11. But refuse the younger widows, for when they become headstrong against the Messiah, they desire to marry,
12. having guilt because they set aside their first belief.
13. Moreover, they learn to be idle, going about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, speaking what is improper.
14. So I resolve that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, giving no occasion to the adversary for reviling.