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OET-RV by cross-referenced section TOB 2:1

TOB 2:1–2:14 ©

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Tobit 2

Tob 2:1–14

2Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared for me, and I sat down to eat. 2I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the master. Behold, I wait for you.”

3Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our fellow-citizens has been strangled, and his body has been thrown onto the street in the marketplace.” 4Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set. 5Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness, 6and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said,

[ref]“Your feasts will be turned into mourning,

and all your mirth into lamentation.

7So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him. 8My neighbours mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.” 9The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered. 10I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went[fn] into Elymais.

11My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers, 12and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid. 13But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, “Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.” 14But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.”

I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her.

But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.[fn]


2:10 Some authorities read until he went.

2:14 Gr. all things are known with you.


Collected OET-RV cross-references

Amos 8:10:

10I’ll turn your festivals into mourning

and all your songs into dirges.

I’ll make all of you wear sackcloth

and every head to be shaved.

I’ll make it like mourning for an only son,

and a bitter day to its end.