Tobit 1:17-19

New Catholic Bible

¹⁷ I would give my bread to the hungry and my clothing to those in need, and if I saw one of my people who died and had been cast outside the walls of Nineveh, I would bury that person. ¹⁸ I also buried those who were put to death by Sennacherib when he fled from Judea during those days of judgment that the king of heaven decreed against him because of his blasphemies. In his anger he slew many Israelites; but I would steal their bodies and bury them, so that Sennacherib would look for them in vain. ¹⁹ But a certain citizen of Nineveh told the king that I was the one who was burying them in secret. When I learned that the king was aware of what I was doing and that he wanted to put me to death, I was overcome with fear and fled.