They do not swear by the name of God, for fear that their breath may leave them, and they become angry with those who swear; they reprimand them, saying, 'Woe, ye poor, why do you swear with the mention of the name of God upon your lips?
Use your mouth for eating bread and drinking water.

Do you not know that for the sin of swearing your children die young ?' And in this way they exhort every one to serve God with fear and integrity of heart.

Therefore, the children of Moses, the servant of God, live long, to the age of 100 or 120 years.
No child, be it son or daughter, dies during the lifetime of its parent, but they reach a third and a fourth generation, and see grandchildren and great-grandchildren with their offspring.

They do all field work themselves, having no male or female servants; there are also merchants among them.

They do not close their houses at night, for there is no thief nor any wicked man among them.