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So Tobias went out to look for such a person. But he quickly returned, shouting, "Father! Father!" "Yes, what is it?" I asked. "One of our people has just been murdered! Someone strangled him and threw his body into the marketplace."
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I jumped up and left the table without even touching my food. I removed the body from the street and carried it to a little shed, where I left it until sunset, when I could bury it.
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Then I returned home and washed, so as to purify myself. In deep sorrow I ate my dinner.
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I was reminded of what the prophet Amos had said to the people of Bethel, "Your festivals will be turned into funerals, and your glad songs will become cries of grief." I began to weep.
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After sunset I went out, dug a grave, and buried the man.