Tobit (c. 200 BC) is a warm domestic tale of a devout exile, his son's journey, and the angel Raphael. Tobit's fatherly advice includes the negative form of the Golden Rule, 'what thou thyself hatest, do to no man', the same principle Jesus states positively ('do to others what you would have them do to you'). Canonical for Catholics and the Orthodox; not in the Jewish or Protestant canon.
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
Tobit: the 'silver rule' (do to no one what you hate)
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And what thou thyself hatest, do to no man.
R. H. Charles's 1913 translation (The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, Oxford; Public Domain)
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In everything, then, do to others as you would have them do to you. For this is the essence of the Law and the Prophets.
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