Tobit

No. 109 Tobit 11:14-19
Tobit is a story kept in the Catholic Bible about a devout Israelite deported to Nineveh, who goes blind, and a young woman named Sarah whose seven husbands have each died on the wedding night. Tobit's son...
No. 336 Tobit 2:7-14
Tobit is a genuinely devout man. Living as an exile in Nineveh, he risks his life to bury the bodies of his people left in the street, defying the king's orders because the law of God requires burying the...
No. 399 Tobit 10:1-6
This is a small, tender scene about two parents waiting for a child who is overdue. Tobit had sent his son Tobias on a long journey, and Tobias has not come back when expected. And the passage does something...
No. 583 Tobit 6:6-12
In the book of Tobit, a young man named Tobias is on a journey, guided by a companion he does not yet know is the angel Raphael in disguise. Earlier a great fish had lunged at Tobias in the river, and the...
No. 688 Tobit 3:7-17
Tobit is a story of two people at the end of their endurance, and this chapter brings their griefs together. Blind Tobit in Nineveh has just prayed to die. Now the scene shifts to Ecbatana, to Sarah, the...
No. 887 Tobit 8:13-21
This is the morning after in the book of Tobit. Sarah has lost seven previous husbands on their wedding nights to a demon, and her father Raguel, fearing an eighth death, has quietly dug a grave overnight so...
No. 982 Tobit 7:12-18
This is the wedding of Tobias and Sarah in the book of Tobit. Sarah's father Raguel takes his daughter by the hand and gives her to Tobias, his kinsman, saying, take her according to the law of Moses. He calls...
No. 1003 Tobit 9:1-6
The wedding is underway, but Tobias has unfinished business. He calls his companion, Raphael, still traveling under the name Azarias, and sends him with camels to Rages in Media, to collect the money Tobias's...
No. 1366 Tobit 6:13-17
On the journey, Tobias confides his fear to his companion, the angel Raphael traveling in disguise as Azarias. The young woman he is to marry, Sarah, has been given to seven husbands, and a demon has killed...
No. 1644 Tobit 4:1-16
Tobit, believing he is near death, gathers his son Tobias to pass on a father's wisdom for living well. Bury me, he says, and honor your mother all her days; remember she bore many dangers for you. Above all,...
No. 1798 Tobit 12:16-22
When Raphael reveals that he is an angel sent by God, Tobit and Tobias fall on their faces in fear. Do not be afraid, he tells them; peace be with you; bless God forever. I came not by any favor of my own but...
No. 1959 Tobit 1:1-14
Tobit tells his own story. When his whole tribe fell away from the worship of God at Jerusalem and turned to idols, he alone remained faithful, going up to the feasts, bringing his tithes and firstfruits,...
No. 1989 Tobit 12:6-15
Raphael, revealing himself as an angel, tells Tobit and Tobias what he has been doing. When you prayed, he says, and Sarah prayed, I brought the memorial of your prayer before the Holy One; and when you buried...
No. 2207 Tobit 13:1-18
In his song of praise, Tobit, an exile among the nations, blesses God who both disciplines and shows mercy. And in the midst of his praise he gives a call to his fellow exiles, sinners scattered for their...
No. 2338 Tobit 7:1-5
When Tobias arrives at the house of Raguel in a distant land, he and his companion are met with warm welcome. Sarah greets them and brings them into the house. Raguel, noticing that the young man resembles his...
No. 2395 Tobit 6:1-5
On the journey, young Tobias goes down to wash in the Tigris, and a fish lunges up as if to swallow him. His companion, the angel Raphael traveling in disguise, tells him not to run but to seize it: grab the...
No. 2403 Tobit 5:11-15
Old Tobit, sending his son Tobias on a long and dangerous journey, hires a guide. He questions the man carefully, asking his tribe and family, and the stranger gives a reassuring lineage: I am Azariah, of your...
No. 2452 Tobit 3:1-6
Tobit, a good man worn down by misfortune and stung by false reproaches, prays out of the bottom of his grief. He does not pretend to be fine. He confesses the sins of his people, appeals to God's mercy and...
No. 2507 Tobit 4:17-21
Tobit, expecting to die, gives his son Tobias a long stream of counsel, and near the end he redefines what makes a person rich. He mentions money left in trust with a relative, but then adds the thing that...
No. 2534 Tobit 11:7-13
Tobit has been blind for years, and now his son Tobias comes home with the remedy the angel told him to keep from the fish caught on the journey. Tobias rubs the gall on his father's eyes; the white films...
No. 2542 Tobit 5:16-22
Tobias sets out on his long journey with his companion, unaware the man is the angel Raphael, and even the family dog goes along. But his mother Anna weeps as he leaves. Why have you sent our child away, she...
No. 2688 Tobit 5:6-10
Young Tobias is about to set out on a long and risky journey, and his father wants a trustworthy guide. A stranger steps forward and offers to go with him, saying he knows the road well and has lodged with...
No. 2689 Tobit 12:1-5
The journey is over. Tobias has come home safe, his father's sight is restored, the money recovered. Now Tobit tells his son to pay their guide his wages, and Tobias proposes giving him half of everything they...
No. 2748 Tobit 5:1-5
Tobias agrees to go and collect the money his father left with a kinsman far away, but he raises an honest problem: I do not know the man, and I do not know the road. His father's answer is practical. Find a...
No. 2930 Tobit 8:1-7
On their wedding night, Tobias remembers Raphael's instruction, burns the fish's heart and liver as incense, and the demon that had tormented Sarah is driven away. Then, before anything else, Tobias says to...
No. 3710 Tobit 11:1-6
As Tobias returns from his long journey, blessing God for prospering his way, the angel Raphael tells him to hurry ahead with the fish's gall that will heal his blind father. And there is a tender picture of a...
No. 3862 Tobit 8:8-12
On the wedding night of Tobias and Sarah, Sarah's father Raguel, remembering how seven previous husbands had died, quietly slips out and digs a grave, fearing that this young man too will not survive the...
No. 3902 Tobit 7:6-11
When Tobias arrives at Raguel's house seeking to marry his daughter Sarah, Raguel welcomes him warmly, but before the arrangement is settled, he does something honest and hard: he tells Tobias the painful...
No. 3925 Tobit 1:15-22
Tobit, an exile in Nineveh, describes a life marked by quiet, costly acts of mercy. He gave his bread to the hungry and his clothing to the naked, and, at great personal risk, he buried the bodies of his own...
No. 3935 Tobit 2:1-6
At the feast of Pentecost, with a good dinner set before him, Tobit sends his son to find a poor kinsman to share the meal, but the son returns with grim news: one of their people has been murdered and left...
No. 4006 Tobit 14:1-15
The book of Tobit closes with the death of Tobit, a man who had lived a long life marked by faithfulness to God and mercy to others. As he grows old and prepares to die, he gathers his son and grandsons and...
No. 4084 Tobit 10:7-12
As Tobias and his new wife Sarah prepare to leave her parents' home, the passage is full of tender family love. Sarah's mother grieves over her daughter's departure, and her father Raguel sends them off with a...