Tobit 1:10

Tobit rewarded for his piety

10 After I was taken captive to Assyria and came to Nineveh,[a] all my relatives and fellow Jews there were eating Gentile food.

Tobit 1:10 In-Context

8 I gave this to orphans and widows, and to Gentiles who had joined Israel. In the third year, when I brought and gave it to them, we would eat together according to the instruction recorded in Moses' Law, as Deborah my grandmother had taught me (for my father had died and left me an orphan).
9 When I became an adult, I married a woman from our clan. Together we had a son, whom I named Tobias.
10 After I was taken captive to Assyria and came to Nineveh, all my relatives and fellow Jews there were eating Gentile food.
11 I, however, avoided eating the Gentiles' food.
12 Because I kept God in view with all my heart,

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. LXX2 After I was taken into captivity into Assyria and when I was taken captive, I went into Nineveh.
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