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Tobit 4:17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

17 (A)Pour out your wine and your bread on the grave of the righteous, but do not share them with sinners.[a]

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  1. 4:17 Tobit counsels his son to give alms in honor of the dead or, more probably, to give the “bread of consolation” to the family of the deceased. Cf. Jer 16:7; Ez 24:17.
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