Tobit 2:3-5

Common English Bible

³ Tobias left to find some poor person among our relatives. When he returned, he said, “Father?”

I answered, “I’m here, my son.”

He exclaimed, “Father, one of our people has been murdered and tossed into the marketplace; his strangled body is just lying there.”

⁴ I got up and left the meal before tasting it. I removed the body from the street and placed it in one of the smaller houses until sunset when I would bury it. ⁵ Then, when I returned, I washed myself and ate my food in sadness.