Tobit 14:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ But keep the law and the commandments, and be merciful and just, so that it may be well with you. ¹⁰ Bury me properly, and your mother with me. And do not live in Nin′eveh any longer. See, my son, what Nadab^[a] did to Ahi′kar who had reared him, how he brought him from light into darkness, and with what he repaid him. But Ahi′kar was saved, and the other received repayment as he himself went down into the darkness. Ahi′kar^[b] gave alms and escaped the deathtrap which Nadab^[c] had set for him; but Nadab^[d] fell into the trap and perished. ¹¹ So now, my children, consider what almsgiving accomplishes and how righteousness delivers.” As he said this he died in his bed. He was a hundred and fifty-eight years old; and Tobi′as^[e] gave him a magnificent funeral.