Tobit 1:22-2:11

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²² But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and took away all his substance.

²³ But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay concealed, for many loved him.

²⁴ But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.

²⁵ And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was restored to him.

2 But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,

² He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

³ And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body:

⁴ And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

⁵ And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,

⁶ Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.

⁷ So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.

⁸ Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?

⁹ But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.

¹⁰ Now it happened one day, that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,

¹¹ And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.