Tobit 4:1-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

Tobit Gives Instructions to His Son

4 That same day Tobit remembered the money that he had left in trust with Gabael at Rages in Media, ² and he said to himself, “Now I have asked for death. Why do I not call my son Tobias and explain to him about the money before I die?” ³ Then he called his son Tobias, and when he came to him he said, “My son, when I die,^[a] give me a proper burial. Honor your mother and do not abandon her all the days of her life. Do whatever pleases her, and do not grieve her in anything. ⁴ Remember her, my son, because she faced many dangers for you while you were in her womb. And when she dies, bury her beside me in the same grave.

⁵ “Revere the Lord all your days, my son, and refuse to sin or to transgress his commandments. Live uprightly all the days of your life, and do not walk in the ways of wrongdoing;