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Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said against Bethel,[a]

    “Your festivals shall be turned into mourning,
    and all your songs into lamentation.”

And I wept.

Tobit Becomes Blind

When the sun had set, I went and dug a grave and buried him. And my neighbors laughed and said, “Is he still not afraid? He has already been hunted down to be put to death for doing this, and he ran away; yet here he is again burying the dead!”

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Footnotes

  1. Tobit 2:6 Other ancient authorities read against Bethlehem

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