The Koine Bible

And Tobias ceased giving thanks.

And he was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight, and after eight years he saw again, and he did acts of almsgiving, and he continued to fear the Lord God and to give thanks to him

And he grew very old and called his son and his sons and said to him, Child, take your sons; behold, I have grown old, and I am at the point of departing from life.

Go into Media, child, for I am persuaded of all that Jonah the prophet spoke concerning Nineveh, that it will be overthrown; but in Media there will be peace rather until a time, and that our brothers in the land will be scattered from the good land, and Jerusalem will be desolate, and the house of God in it will be burned up, and it will be desolate until a time.

And again God will have mercy on them and will bring them back to the land, and they will build the house, not like the former one, until the times of the age are fulfilled; and after these things they will return from the captivities and will build Jerusalem honorably, and the house of God in it will be built for all the generations of the age, a glorious building, as the prophets spoke concerning her.

And all the nations shall truly turn back to fear the Lord God, and they shall bury their idols, and all the nations shall bless the Lord

And his people will confess to God, and the Lord will exalt his people, and all those who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness, doing mercy to our brothers, will rejoice.

And now, child, go away from Nineveh, because by all means there will be what the prophet Jonah spoke.

But you, keep the law and the commandments, and be loving mercy and just, so that it may be well with you, and bury me well, and your mother with me, and no longer camp in Nineveh.

Child, see what Haman did to Ahikar who had reared him, how from the light he brought him into darkness, and what he repaid him; and Ahikar indeed was saved, but to that one the recompense was repaid, and he himself went down into darkness. Manasseh practiced almsgiving and was saved from the snare of death which Haman had set for him, but he fell into the snare and perished.

And now, children, see what almsgiving does and what righteousness delivers. And while he was saying these things, his soul failed upon the bed; and he was one hundred and fifty-eight years old, and they buried him honorably.

And when Anna died, he buried her with his father; and Tobias departed with his wife and his sons to Ecbatana, to Raguel his father-in-law.

And he grew old honorably, and he buried his parents-in-law gloriously, and he inherited their property, and Tobit his father

And he died at one hundred and twenty-seven years in Ecbatana of Media

And he heard before he died of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nabuchodonosor and Asyēros had taken captive, and he rejoiced before dying over Nineveh