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Then I sprang up, left the dinner before even tasting it, and removed the body[a] from the square[b] and laid it[c] in one of the rooms until sunset when I might bury it.[d] When I returned, I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow. Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said against Bethel,[e]

    “Your festivals shall be turned into mourning,
    and all your songs into lamentation.”

And I wept.

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Footnotes

  1. Tobit 2:4 Gk him
  2. Tobit 2:4 Other ancient authorities lack from the square
  3. Tobit 2:4 Gk him
  4. Tobit 2:4 Gk him
  5. Tobit 2:6 Other ancient authorities read against Bethlehem

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