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Tobit 2:1 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared for me, and I sat down to eat. "
Tobit 2:1
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1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared for me, and I sat down to eat.
2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
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Tobit 2:2
"I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”"
Tobit 2:3
"Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”"
Tobit 2:4
"Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set."
Tobit 2:5
"Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,"
Tobit 2:6
"and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said, “Your feasts will be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation."
Tobit 2:7
"So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him."
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