Tobit 2:1-7
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 2
His Neighbors Deride Tobit’s Generosity. 1 During the reign of Esarhaddon, therefore, I returned home, and my wife Anna and my son Tobiah were restored to me. At our festival of Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, an excellent dinner was prepared for me, and I reclined to eat. 2 The table was set for me, and an abundance of food was placed before me. I said to my son Tobiah, “Go out, my child, and find some poor man among our people exiled here in Nineveh. If he is wholeheartedly devoted to God, bring him back with you to share my meal. I will wait for you, my son, until you return.”
3 And so Tobiah went out to search for some poor person of our people. When he returned, he said, “Father!” I replied, “What is it, my son?” “Father,” he answered, “one of our people has been murdered and thrown into the marketplace, and he is still lying there strangled.” 4 I sprang up at once, leaving my dinner without having even tasted it; and I removed the body from the marketplace and put it in one of the rooms until sunset when I would be able to bury it. 5 When I returned, I bathed myself and ate my dinner in sorrow, 6 recalling the words pronounced by the prophet Amos against Bethel:
“I will turn your religious feasts into mourning,
and all your singing into weeping.”
7 And I wept. When the sun had set, I went out, dug a grave, and buried him.
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