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Tobit 3:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber. "
Tobit 3:17
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15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
16 The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
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Tobit
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Anna, wife of 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 1:3When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
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Tobias, son of 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 1:3When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
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Tobias, son of Tobit
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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 1:3When I became a man, I took as wife Anna of the seed of our own family. With her, I became the father of Tobias.
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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.
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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.
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Sarah, daughter of Raguel
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Raguel Raguel is the father 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.
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Tobias, son of Tobit 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.
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Edna Edna is the mother of Sarah.
Source: Tobit 7:13; Tobit 7:16; Tobit 7:17
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 7:13And Raguel called his wife Edna, and said to her, “Sister, prepare the other chamber, and bring her in there.”
Read Tobit 7:16She did as he asked her, and brought her in there. She wept, and she received the tears of her daughter, and said to her,
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From This Chapter
Tobit 3:1
"I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying,"
Tobit 3:2
"“O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgment forever."
Tobit 3:3
"Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you."
Tobit 3:4
"For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed."
Tobit 3:5
"Now your judgments are many and true, that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers, because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you."
Tobit 3:6
"Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”"
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