And in the time of King Sacherdonus I came down into my house, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and Tobias my son, and at our feast of Pentecost, which is holy, of seven weeks, there was made for me a good dinner, and I reclined to dine.
and the table was set before me, and more fish were set before me, and I said to Tobias my son, Child, go, and whomsoever you find poor of our brothers from the captives of the Ninevites, who remembers with all his heart, and bring him, and he shall eat in common with me; and look, I am waiting for you, child, until you come.
And Tobias went to seek some poor man of our brothers, and, returning, he says, Father; and I said to him, Behold, I am a child; and answering he said, Father, behold, one of our nation has been slain and has been thrown in the marketplace, and there now he has been strangled.
And springing up, I left the meal before I tasted it, and I took him up from the street and put him in one of the little houses until the sun went down, and I will bury him.
And I remembered the word of the prophet, all that Amos spoke against Bethel, saying, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning and all your songs into lamentation, and I wept
And those nearby were laughing at me, saying, He does not fear; no longer, for now he has already been sought to be killed because of this matter, and he fled, and again, behold, he is burying the dead.
And on that same night I washed myself and went into my courtyard and slept beside the wall of the courtyard, and my face uncovered because of the heat.
and I did not know that sparrows were in the wall above me, and their excrement fell hot into my eyes, and it brought on white spots, and I went to the physicians to be healed, and as much as they anointed me with medicines, so much more my eyes were blinded by the white spots until becoming completely blind, and I was weak in my eyes four years, and all my brothers grieved because of me, and Achiacharus supported me two years before he himself went to Elymais
And she was sending to their masters, and they were giving back to her the wage, and on the seventh of Dystros she cut out the web, and sent it to the masters, and they gave her the whole wage, and they gave her a kid from the goats for the hearth.
And when the kid came in to me, it began to cry out, and I called her and said, From where is this little kid? Perhaps it is stolen; give it back to its owners, for we do not have authority to eat anything stolen.
And she says to me, She will give; it has been given to me for the wage. And I did not believe her, and I was saying, To give back to the masters. And I was blushful for this toward her. Then, answering, she says to me, And where are your alms? Where are your righteous deeds? See, these things are known with you.