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Tobit 1:9 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias. "

Tobit 1:9

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7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase to the sons of Levi, who ministered at Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold away, and went, and spent it each year at Jerusalem.

8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

9 When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.

10 When I was carried away captive to Nineveh, all my kindred and my relatives ate of the bread of the Gentiles;

11 but I kept myself from eating,

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Anna, wife of Tobit

  • Tobit Tobit is the husband of Anna.
    Source: Tobit 1:3; Tobit 1:9
    I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
    Read Tobit 1:3
    When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
    Read Tobit 1:9
  • Tobias, son of Tobit Anna is the mother of Tobias.
    Source: Tobit 1:9
    When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
    Read Tobit 1:9

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Tobias, son of Tobit

  • Tobit Tobit is the father of Tobias.
    Source: Tobit 1:3; Tobit 1:9
    I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.
    Read Tobit 1:3
    When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
    Read Tobit 1:9
  • Anna, wife of Tobit Anna is the mother of Tobias.
    Source: Tobit 1:9
    When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
    Read Tobit 1:9
  • Sarah, daughter of Raguel Tobias is the husband of Sarah.
    Source: Tobit 7:13
    And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them.
    Read Tobit 7:13

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Tobit 14:12

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"When Anna died, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana to Raguel his father-in-law,"

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Tobit 7:13

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"And he called his daughter Sarah, and took her by the hand, and gave her to be wife of Tobias, and said, “Behold, take her to yourself after the law of Moses, and lead her away to your father.” And he blessed them."

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Genesis 24:7

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"The LORD, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there."

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Exodus 2:1

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"A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife."

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1 Maccabees 2:20

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"yet I and my sons and my kindred will walk in the covenant of our fathers."

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Daniel 13:2

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"He took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helkias, a very fair woman, and one who feared the Lord."

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Tobit 1:1

"The book of the words of Tobit, the son of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;"

Tobit 1:2

"who in the days of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was carried away captive out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher."

Tobit 1:3

"I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I did many alms deeds to my kindred and my nation, who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Nineveh."

Tobit 1:4

"When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages."

Tobit 1:5

"All the tribes which fell away together sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the house of Naphtali my father."

Tobit 1:6

"I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel by an everlasting decree, having the first fruits and the tenths of my increase, and that which was first shorn; and I gave them at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron."

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