| 2 | Tobit | ||
| 1 | When I arrived home and my wife Anna and my son Tobias were restored to me, at the feast of Pentecost, which is the sacred festival of the seven weeks, a good dinner was prepared for me and I sat down to eat. | A family celebration. Tob.2.1-2 | |
| 2 | Upon seeing the abundance of food I said to my son, "Go and bring whatever poor man of our brethren you may find who is mindful of the Lord, and I will wait for you." | ||
| 3 | But he came back and said, "Father, one of our people has been strangled and thrown into the market place." | A murder in Nineveh. Tob.2.3-8 | |
| 4 | So before I tasted anything I sprang up and removed the body to a place of shelter until sunset. | ||
| 5 | And when I returned I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow. | ||
| 6 | Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said, and all your festivities into lamentation." | - feasts turned into mourning - Am.8:10 | |
| 7 | When the sun had set I went and dug a grave and buried the body. | ||
| 8 | And my neighbours laughed at me and said, "He is no longer afraid that he will be put to death for doing this; he once ran away, and here he is burying the dead again!" | ||
| 9 | On the same night I returned from burying him, and because I was defiled I slept by the wall of the courtyard, and my face was uncovered. | Tobit blinded. Tob.2.9-10 | |
| 10 | I did not know that there were sparrows on the wall and their fresh droppings fell into my open eyes and white films formed on my eyes. I went to physicians, but they did not help me. Ahikar, however, took care of me until he went to Elymais. | ||
| 11 | Then my wife Anna earned money at women's work. | A family quarrel. Tob.2.11-14 | |
| 12 | She used to send the product to the owners. Once when they paid her wages, they also gave her a kid; | ||
| 13 | and when she returned to me it began to bleat. So I said to her, "Where did you get the kid? It is not stolen, is it? Return it to the owners; for it is not right to eat what is stolen." | ||
| 14 | And she said, "It was given to me as a gift in addition to my wages." But I did not believe her, and told her to return it to the owners; and I blushed for her. Then she replied to me, "Where are your charities and your righteous deeds? You seem to know everything!" | ||
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