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Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me with my son Tobias, at the Feast of Pentecost, which is the holy Feast of the Seven Weeks, there was a good dinner prepared for me, which I sat down to eat.
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And when I saw the abundance of meat, I said to my son, "Go and bring whatsoever poor man thou shalt find among our brethren, who is mindful of the Lord; and, lo, I will tarry for thee."
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But he came back and said, "Father, one of our nation is strangled and is cast out in the marketplace."
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Then before I had tasted of any meat, I started up, and took him up into a room until the going down of the sun.
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Then I returned and washed myself, and ate my meat in heaviness,
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remembering that prophecy of Amos, as he said, Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.
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Therefore I wept. And after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
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But my neighbors mocked me and said,"This man is not yet afraid to be put to death for this matter; he fled away, and yet, lo, he burieth the dead again."
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The same night also I returned from the burial and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted, and my face was uncovered.
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And I knew not that there were sparrows on the wall; and mine eyes being open, the sparrows voided warm dung into mine eyes, and a whiteness came in mine eyes. And I went to the physicians, but they helped me not. Moreover Achiacharus nourished me until I went into Elymais.