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Tobit 8:20-21
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 8:20-21
New Catholic Bible
20 Then he called Tobiah and swore an oath to him: “You shall not depart from here for fourteen days.[a] Rather, you shall stay here eating and drinking with me, and you shall bring joy to my daughter’s heart after all the suffering she has endured. 21 Take at once half of everything I possess,[b] and then return with her safe and sound to your father. When my wife and I are dead, you will inherit the other half. Have courage, my son. I am your father and Edna is your mother, and now and forever we belong to you just as much as we belong to your wife. Have courage, my son.”
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- Tobit 8:20 Fourteen days: the duration of the festivities, which normally would take place in the house of the groom, is doubled from one week (see Gen 29:27; Jdg 14:12) to two. They will then be repeated according to custom (Tob 11:18).
- Tobit 8:21 Half of everything I possess: in contrast to the accounts of the patriarchs (Gen 24), the text here does not speak of a sum given by the fiancé to his betrothed’s father; on the contrary, it is the latter who gives a dowry to his daughter.
