1Here Tobit ended his words of praise. 2He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight, and after eight years he regained it. He gave alms, and he continued to fear the Lord God and to praise him.
3When he had grown very old he called his son and grandsons, and said to him,
8"So now, my son, leave Nineveh, because what the prophet Jonah said will surely happen. 9But keep the law and the commandments, and be merciful and just, so that it may be well with you. 10Bury me properly, and your mother with me. And do not live in Nineveh any longer. See, my son, what Nadab did to Ahikar who had reared him, how he brought him from light into darkness, and with what he repaid him. But Ahikar was saved, and the other received repayment as he himself went down into the darkness. Ahikar gave alms and escaped the deathtrap which Nadab had set for him; but Nadab fell into the trap and perished. 11So now, my children, consider what almsgiving accomplishes and how righteousness delivers."
As he said this he died in his bed. He was a hundred and fifty-eight years old; and Tobias gave him a magnificent funeral. 12And when Anna died he buried her with his father.
Then Tobias returned with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana, to Raguel his father-in-law. 13He grew old with honour, and he gave his father-in-law and mother-in-law magnificent funerals. He inherited their property and that of his father Tobit. 14He died in Ecbatana of Media at the age of a hundred and twenty-seven years. 15But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus had captured. Before his death he rejoiced over Nineveh.
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