1 So Tobit made an end of praising God.
2 And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight, which was restored to him after eight years: and he gave alms, and he increased in the fear of the Lord God, and praised him.
3 And when he was very aged he called his son, and the sons of his son, and said to him, My son, take thy children; for, behold, I am aged, and am ready to depart out of this life.
4 Go into Media my son, for I surely believe those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve, that it shall be overthrown; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land: and Jerusalem shall be desolate, and the house of God in it shall be burned, and shall be desolate for a time;
5 And that again God will have mercy on them, and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like to the first, until the time of that age be fulfilled; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity, and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, as the prophets have spoken thereof.
6 And all nations shall turn, and fear the Lord God truly, and shall bury their idols.
7 So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, shewing mercy to our brethren.
8 And now, my son, depart out of Nineve, because that those things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass.
9 But keep thou the law and the commandments, and shew thyself merciful and just, that it may go well with thee.
10 And bury me decently, and thy mother with me; but tarry no longer at Nineve. Remember, my son, how Aman handled Achiacharus that brought him up, how out of light he brought him into darkness, and how he rewarded him again: yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other had his reward: for he went down into darkness. Manasses gave alms, and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him: but Aman fell into the snare, and perished.
11 Wherefore now, my son, consider what alms doeth, and how righteousness doth deliver. When he had said these things, he gave up the ghost in the bed, being an hundred and eight and fifty years old; and he buried him honourably.
12 And when Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law,
13 Where he became old with honour, and he buried his father and mother in law honourably, and he inherited their substance, and his father Tobit’s.
14 And he died at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundred and seven and twenty years old.
15 But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus: and before his death he rejoiced over Nineve.
1 et consummati sunt sermones Tobi
et posteaquam inluminatus est
vixit annis quadraginta duobus et vidit filios nepotum suorum
2 conpletis itaque annis centum duobus
sepultus est honorifice in Nineven
3 quinquaginta namque et sex annorum oculorum lumen amisit
sexagenarius vero recepit
4 reliquum vero vitae suae in gaudio fuit
et cum bono profectu timoris Dei perrexit in pace
5 in hora autem mortis suae vocavit ad se Tobiam filium suum
et septem iuvenes filios eius nepotes suos
dixitque eis
6 prope erit interitus Nineven
non enim excidit verbum Dei
et fratres nostri qui dispersi sunt a terra Israhel revertentur ad eam
7 omnis autem deserta terra eius replebitur
et domus Dei quae in ea incensa est iterum reaedificabitur
ibique revertentur omnes timentes Deum
8 et relinquent gentes idola sua
et venient in Hierusalem et inhabitabunt in ea
9 et gaudebunt in ea omnes adorantes regem Israhel
10 audite ergo filii mei patrem vestrum
servite Domino in veritate
et inquirite ut faciatis quae sunt placita illi
11 et filiis vestris mandate ut faciant iustitias et elemosynas
ut sint memores Dei et benedicant eum in omni tempore
in veritate et in tota virtute sua
12 nunc ergo filii audite me et nolite manere hic
sed quacumque die sepelieritis matrem vestram
circa me in uno sepulchro
ex eo dirigite gressus vestros ut exeatis hinc
13 video enim quoniam iniquitas eius finem dabit ei
14 factum est autem post obitum matris suae
Tobias abscessit ex Nineven
cum uxore sua et filiis
et reversus est ad soceros suos
15 invenitque eos incolomes in senectute bona
et curam eorum gessit
et ipse clausit oculos eorum
et omnem hereditatem domus Raguhel ipse percepit
viditque quintam generationem filios filiorum suorum
16 et conpletis annis nonaginta et novem in timore Domini
cum gaudio sepelierunt eum
17 omnis cognatio eius
et omnis generatio eius in bona vita et sancta
conversatione permansit
ita ut accepti essent tam Deo quam hominibus
et cunctis habitatoribus terrae
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