Now therefore, my children, let not prayer and fasting fail from among you, for it is they that drive away the demons.
2My children, keep yourselves from fornication, and anger, and adultery, and every evil thing, and especially from injustice, and blasphemy, and reviling; because no injustice shall inherit the kingdom of the heavens; neither fornicators, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor blasphemers, nor drunkards, nor idolaters, nor revilers, nor extortioners; yea, and the rest of them of whom we have spoken shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
3My children, give glory unto the saints, for it is they that make intercession for you, that your seed may multiply and that ye may inherit the land of promise for ever; my children, be lovers of strangers, that ye may receive the portion of our father Abraham the great patriarch.
4My children, love the poor; for in the manner that thou shalt do unto the poor man in this place, God shall give unto thee the bread of everlasting life in the heavens; yea, whosoever shall feed a poor man with a loaf of bread in this place, God shall feed him from the tree of life.
5Clothe the poor man that is naked in this place upon the earth, that He may clothe thee with a robe of glory in the heavens, and that thou mayest become a son of our holy fathers the patriarchs Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob in the heavens for ever.
6Take heed unto the word of God in this place, and make remembrance of the saints; let their memorial and an example of them be written to comfort them that shall hear them, that thy name also may be written in the Book of Life in the heavens, and that they may reckon thee in the choir of His holy ones, even those who pleased Him in their generation, to dance with the angels in the land of the living.
7Celebrate now the remembrance of the holy patriarchs our fathers at this season year by year: our father Abraham the patriarch, on the twenty and eighth day of Mesore; our father Isaac also the patriarch, on the twenty and eighth day of Mesore; our father Jacob likewise, on the twenty and eighth day of the same month Mesore.
8According as we found it written in the ancient compilations of our holy fathers the Apostles who pleased God; and may it be granted unto us all together, through their entreaty and their supplication, that we may attain unto their portion and their lot in the kingdom of our Lord and our God and our Saviour Jesus Christ, through whom be the glory unto the Father with Him, and unto the Holy Life-giving Spirit, now and at all times and for ever and ever. Amen.
9Remember me, that God may forgive me all my sins, and grant me understanding, and vouchsafe unto me a sinless departure. Amen.