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# Tobit 1

Tobit 1 is chapter 1 of 14 in the Book of Tobit. Here are all 25 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Tobias's early piety: his works of mercy, particularly in burying the dead.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Tobit 1 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Tobit was from the tribe and city of Naphtali (which is in the upper parts of Galilee above Asher, after the way, which leads to the west, that has on its left the city of Sephet).
2. Although he had been taken captive in the days of Shalmaneser, the king of the Assyrians, even in such a situation as captivity, he did not desert the way of truth.
3. So then, every day, all that he was able to obtain, he bestowed on his fellow captive brothers, who were from his kindred.
4. And, when he was among the youngest of any in the tribe of Naphtali, he showed not so much as any childish behavior in his work.
5. And then, when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam, king of Israel, had made, he alone fled from the company of them all.
6. Yet he continued on to Jerusalem, to the temple of the Lord, and there he adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his first-fruits and his tithes.
7. So then, in the third year, he administered all his tithes to new converts and to new arrivals.
8. These and similar such things, even as a boy, he observed according to the law of God.
9. Truly, when he had become a man, he received as wife Anna of his own tribe, and he conceived a son by her, to whom he assigned his own name.
10. From his infancy, he taught him to fear God and to abstain from all sin.
11. Therefore, when, during the captivity, he had arrived with his wife and son at the city of Nineveh, with all his tribe,
12. (even though they all ate from the foods of the Gentiles,) he guarded his soul and never was contaminated with their foods.
13. And because he was mindful of the Lord with his whole heart, God gave him favor in the sight of Shalmaneser the king.
14. And he gave him the power to go wherever he would want, having the freedom to do whatever he wished.
15. Therefore, he continued on to all who were in captivity, and he gave them helpful advice.
16. But when he had arrived at Rages, a city of the Medes, he had ten talents of silver, from that which he had been given in honor by the king.
17. And when, in the midst of the great tumult of his kindred, he saw the destitution of Gabael, who was from his tribe, he loaned him, under a written agreement, the aforementioned weight of silver.
18. In truth, after a long time, Shalmaneser the king died, while Sennacherib his son reigned in his place, and he held a hatred for the sons of Israel.
19. Every day, Tobit traveled through all his own people, and he consoled them, and he distributed to each one as much as he could from his resources.
20. He nourished the hungry, and he supplied clothes to the naked, and he showed concern for the burial of the dead and of the slain.
21. And then, when king Sennacherib had returned from Judea, fleeing the scourge which God had caused all around him because of his blasphemy, and, being angry, he was slaughtering many from the sons of Israel, Tobit buried their bodies.
22. And when it was reported to the king, he ordered him to be slain, and he took away all his belongings.
23. In truth, Tobit, fleeing with nothing but his son and his wife, was able to remain hidden because many loved him.
24. In truth, after forty-five days, the king was slain by his own sons,
25. and Tobit was able to return to his house, and all his resources were restored to him.

## Tobit 1 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Tobias ex tribu et civitate Nephthali (quæ est in superioribus Galilææ supra Naasson, post viam quæ ducit ad occidentem, in sinistro habens civitatem Sephet)
2. cum captus esset in diebus Salmanasar regis Assyriorum, in captivitate tamen positus, viam veritatis non deseruit,
3. ita ut omnia quæ habere poterat, quotidie concaptivis fratribus, qui erant ex ejus genere, impertiret.
4. Cumque esset junior omnibus in tribu Nephthali, nihil tamen puerile gessit in opere.
5. Denique, cum irent omnes ad vitulos aureos quos Jeroboam fecerat rex Israël, hic solus fugiebat consortia omnium.
6. Sed pergebat in Jerusalem ad templum Domini, et ibi adorabat Dominum Deum Israël, omnia primitiva sua et decimas suas fideliter offerens,
7. ita ut in tertio anno proselytis et advenis ministraret omnem decimationem.
8. Hæc et his similia secundum legem Dei puerulus observabat.
9. Cum vero factus esset vir, accepit uxorem Annam de tribu sua, genuitque ex ea filium, nomen suum imponens ei:
10. quem ab infantia timere Deum docuit, et abstinere ab omni peccato.
11. Igitur, cum per captivitatem devenisset cum uxore sua et filio in civitatem Niniven cum omni tribu sua
12. (cum omnes ederent ex cibis gentilium), iste custodivit animam suam, et numquam contaminatus est in escis eorum.
13. Et quoniam memor fuit Domini in toto corde suo, dedit illi Deus gratiam in conspectu Salmanasar regis,
14. et dedit illi potestatem quocumque vellet ire, habens libertatem quæcumque facere voluisset.
15. Pergebat ergo ad omnes qui erant in captivitate, et monita salutis dabat eis.
16. Cum autem venisset in Rages civitatem Medorum, et ex his quibus honoratus fuerat a rege, habuisset decem talenta argenti:
17. et cum in multa turba generis sui Gabelum egentem videret, qui erat ex tribu ejus, sub chirographo dedit illi memoratum pondus argenti.
18. Post multum vero temporis, mortuo Salmanasar rege, cum regnaret Sennacherib filius ejus pro eo, et filios Israël exosos haberet in conspectu suo,
19. Tobias quotidie pergebat per omnem cognationem suam, et consolabatur eos, dividebatque unicuique, prout poterat, de facultatibus suis:
20. esurientes alebat, nudisque vestimenta præbebat, et mortuis atque occisis sepulturam sollicitus exhibebat.
21. Denique cum reversus esset rex Sennacherib, fugiens a Judæa plagam quam circa eum fecerat Deus propter blasphemiam suam, et iratus multos occideret ex filiis Israël, Tobias sepeliebat corpora eorum.
22. At ubi nuntiatum est regi, jussit eum occidi, et tulit omnem substantiam ejus.
23. Tobias vero cum filio suo et cum uxore suo fugiens, nudus latuit, quia multi diligebant eum.
24. Post dies vero quadraginta quinque occiderunt regem filii ipsius,
25. et reversus est Tobias in domum suam, omnisque facultas ejus restituta est ei.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 2300: Respect for the Dignity of Persons ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).