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3 And he came and said: My father, one of our tribe, was strangled and thrown into the market place. (Tobias reports that a strangled Israeli lies in the square).
4 Then, before I began to eat, I hastily went out and put him away in one dwelling before the sun went down. (Tobit hid the body).
5 When he returned, he washed himself and ate my bread in sorrow. (After washing, Tobit ate in sorrow.)
6 And I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said: Your festivals will be turned into sorrow, and all your pleasures into mourning. (Amos is a Jewish prophet).
7 And I cried. When the sun set, I went and dug [a grave] and buried him. (The corpse is buried).
8 The neighbors mocked [me] and said: He is not yet afraid of being killed for this matter; He’s already been ru
9 That same night, having returned from the burial and being unclean, I lay down to sleep outside the courtyard wall, and my face was not covered. (Tobit sleeps in the open air).
10 And I did not notice that there were sparrows on the wall. When my eyes were open, the sparrows sent forth warmth into my eyes, and they became a thorn in my eyes. And I went to doctors, but they didn’t help me. Ahiachar provided me with food until he went to Elymaida. (Apparently, sparrow excrement got into the eyes).
11 And then my wife A
12 And she sent it to rich people, who gave her payment and once gave her a kid in addition. (Payment in goat).
13 When they brought him to me, he began to bleat; and I asked [my wife], where does this kid come from? isn't it stolen? give it to whoever it belongs to! for it is unlawful to eat stolen goods. (Tobit thought that the kid was stolen).
14 She answered: This was given to me over and above my wages. But I didn’t believe her and insisted that she give it to whoever it belonged to, and I got angry with her. And she answered me: where are your alms and righteous deeds? that's how they all showed up on you! (Quarrel between spouses).
Chapter 3
1 Being saddened, I wept and prayed with sorrow, saying: (Tobit is in sorrow).
2 You are righteous, O Lord, and all Your works and all Your ways are mercy and truth, and You judge with true and just judgment forever! (From a religious point of view, everything depends on God).
3 Remember me and look upon me: do not punish me for my sins and the errors of my fathers, with which they si
4 For they did not listen to Your commandments, and You gave us over to spoil and captivity and death, and to be a proverbial reproach before all the nations among whom we are scattered. (Allegedly, those who did not listen and did not follow God’s instructions are to blame for everything; that is why God punished his “chosen people”).
5 And truly your judgments are many and righteous, to do to me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers, because they did not keep your commandments and did not do what is right before you. (Allegedly, those who did not listen and did not follow God’s instructions are to blame for everything; that is why God punished his “chosen people”).
6 Do therefore with me what is pleasing to You; commanded to take my spirit so that I would be resolved and turn into the ground, for it is better for me to die than to live, since I hear false reproaches and the sorrow is deep in me! Command me to free me from this burden to the eternal abode and do not turn Your face away from me. (Tobit, in grief, turned to Yahweh with a request to accept him into the eternal abode).
7 On that very day it happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, in Ecbatana of Media, suffered reproaches from her father’s handmaids (there were also reproaches against a certain Sarah).
8 because she was given to seven husbands, but Asmodeus, the evil spirit, killed them before they were with her as a wife. They said to her: Aren’t you ashamed that you strangled your husbands? You already had seven, but you didn’t call yourself by the name of any of them. ("Sacred" 7. "Critics note," writes Leo Taxil in the "Fu