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Tobit 10:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.” "
Tobit 10:8
Verse in Context
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6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”
7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.”
8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.”
9 Tobias said, “No. Send me away to my father.”
10 Raguel arose, and gave him Sarah his wife, and half his goods, servants and cattle and money;
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Tobit 10:1
"Tobit his father counted every day. When the days of the journey were expired, and they didn’t come,"
Tobit 10:2
"he said, “Is he perchance detained? Or is Gabael perchance dead, and there is no one to give him the money?”"
Tobit 10:3
"He was very grieved."
Tobit 10:4
"But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said,"
Tobit 10:5
"“I care about nothing, my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.”"
Tobit 10:6
"Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.”"
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