Tobit 1:7-9

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⁷ I would give these to the priests, the sons of Aaron, at the altar, likewise the tenth of the grain, wine, olive oil, pomegranates, figs, and the rest of the fruits to the sons of Levi who ministered at Jerusalem. Also every six years I would save up a second tenth in money and go and distribute it each year in Jerusalem,^{(A) 8} giving it to the orphans and widows and to the converts who had attached themselves to the Israelites. In the third year I would bring it and give it to them, and we would eat it according to the ordinance decreed concerning it in the law of Moses and according to the instructions of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel,^[a] for my father had died and left me an orphan.^{(B) 9} When I became a man I married a woman,^[b] a member of our own family, and by her I became the father of a son whom I named Tobias.^(C)