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Tobit 1:8-10
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 1:8-10
New Catholic Bible
8 A third tithe I would distribute among orphans and widows as well as among the converts who were dwelling among the Israelites. Every third year when I brought this third tithe, we would consume it together in accordance with the decree prescribed in the law of Moses and with the commands of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel; for when my father died, I was left an orphan.
9 When I achieved manhood, I married a woman named Anna, who was of our own lineage, and she bore me a son whom I named Tobiah.
10 Tobit Deported and Persecuted.[a]After the Exile to Assyria, I came to Nineveh as a captive. All the members of my kindred and of my people ate the food of pagans,
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- Tobit 1:10 Without any concern for chronology, the author mixes up reigns. He wishes to stress that Tobit remains faithful in spite of any trials; he is an example offered for our meditation. The end of the passage relates to literature: Ahiqar, who is here characterized as a Hebrew and a cousin of Tobit, is the protagonist of the Book (or Wisdom) of Ahiqar, of Assyrian origin, preserved in various redactions and translations, which portrays him as conspicuous for wisdom and probity (see Tob 2:10; 11:18; 14:10; Jud 5:5).
