Tob 1:21 And there pa.s.sed not five and fifty days, before two of his sons killed him, and they fled into the mountains of Ararath; and Sarchedonus his son reigned in his stead; who appointed over his father"s accounts, and over all his affairs, Achiacharus my brother Anael"s son.
Tob 1:22 And Achiacharus intreating for me, I returned to Nineve. Now Achiacharus was cupbearer, and keeper of the signet, and steward, and overseer of the accounts: and Sarchedonus appointed him next unto him: and he was my brother"s son.
Tob 2:1 Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.
Tob 2:2 And when I saw abundance of meat, I said to my son, Go and bring what poor man soever thou shalt find out of our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I tarry for thee.
Tob 2:3 But he came again, and said, Father, one of our nation is strangled, and is cast out in the marketplace.
Tob 2:4 Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
Tob 2:5 Then I returned, and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,
Tob 2:6 Remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.
Tob 2:7 Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
Tob 2:8 But my neighbours mocked me, and said, This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter: who fled away; and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again.
Tob 2:9 The same night also I returned from the burial, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted and my face was uncovered:
Tob 2:10 And I knew not that there were sparrows in the wall, and mine eyes being open, the sparrows muted warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes: and I went to the physicians, but they helped me not: moreover Achiacharus did nourish me, until I went into Elymais.
Tob 2:11 And my wife Anna did take women"s works to do.
Tob 2:12 And when she had sent them home to the owners, they paid her wages, and gave her also besides a kid.
Tob 2:13 And when it was in my house, and began to cry, I said unto her, From whence is this kid? is it not stolen? render it to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat any thing that is stolen.
Tob 2:14 But she replied upon me, It was given for a gift more than the wages. Howbeit I did not believe her, but bade her render it to the owners: and I was abashed at her. But she replied upon me, Where are thine alms and thy righteous deeds? behold, thou and all thy works are known.
Tob 3:1 Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,
Tob 3:2 O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever.
Tob 3:3 Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee:
Tob 3:4 For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed.
Tob 3:5 And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers": because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.
Tob 3:6 Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
Tob 3:7 It came to pa.s.s the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father"s maids;
Tob 3:8 Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.
Tob 3:9 Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.
Tob 3:10 Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
Tob 3:11 Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my G.o.d, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.
Tob 3:12 And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee,
Tob 3:13 And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach.
Tob 3:14 Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
Tob 3:15 And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.
Tob 3:16 So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great G.o.d.
Tob 3:17 And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit"s eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
Tob 4:1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to Gabael in Rages of Media,
Tob 4:2 And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the money before I die?
Tob 4:3 And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead, bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her not.
Tob 4:4 Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
Tob 4:5 My son, be mindful of the Lord our G.o.d all thy days, and let not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments: do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness.
Tob 4:6 For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them that live justly.
Tob 4:7 Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, and the face of G.o.d shall not be turned away from thee.
Tob 4:8 If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:
Tob 4:9 For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the day of necessity.
Tob 4:10 Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to come into darkness.
Tob 4:11 For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of the most High.
Tob 4:12 Beware of all wh.o.r.edom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife, which is not of thy father"s tribe: for we are the children of the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son, that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.
Tob 4:13 Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thy heart thy brethren, the sons and daughters of thy people, in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction and much trouble, and in lewdness is decay and great want: for lewdness is the mother of famine.
Tob 4:14 Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve G.o.d, he will also repay thee: be circ.u.mspect my son, in all things thou doest, and be wise in all thy conversation.
Tob 4:15 Do that to no man which thou hatest: drink not wine to make thee drunken: neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.
Tob 4:16 Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked; and according to thine abundance give alms: and let not thine eye be envious, when thou givest alms.
Tob 4:17 Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked.