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Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: Once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?
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But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.
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Now it happened one day, that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,
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And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.
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Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.