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CHAPTER XII, 12-17.
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have taught thus: 'My son is suitable also as thy son, but my daughter is not suitable also as thy daughter;' and there are many who do not appoint an adopted son with this idea, that: The child of a handmaid may be accepted by us as a son.'
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15. The rule is this, that one is to persevere much in the begetting of offspring, since it is for the acquisition of many good works at once; because in the Spend and Nihâdûm Nasks the high-priests have taught that the duty and good works which a son performs are as much the father's as though they had been done by his own hand; and in the Dâmdâd Nask it is revealed thus: 'Likewise, too, the good works, in like manner, which come to the father as his own.'
16. The rule is this, that what they shall give to the worthy is as much as is proper and beyond, for eating and accumulating; because in the Nihâdûm Nask the high-priests have taught thus: 'When a man gives bread to a man, even though that man has too much bread, all the good works, which he shall perform through that superabundance, become as much his who gave it as though they had been done by his own hand.'
17. The rule is this, that in the night water is
1 The writer of M6 evidently found his original illegible at this place, as he wrote. . . ma man instead of man denman.
2 M6 has 'performance,' which is probably a misreading, due to the original of that MS. being partially illegible.
See Chap. X, 4.
This Nask is not mentioned in Chap. X, 22, and the passage here alluded to is not to be traced in any of the short accounts of its contents.
See Chap. X, 3, 22.
* See SZS. IX, 1, and Chap. X, 22.
• See Chap. X, 3, 23.
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