The Word Am I

The Book of Tobit (Tobias)

⭑ Catholic Public Domain Version 2009 ⭑

Table of Contents

- Chapter 1 -

Tobias’s early piety: his works of mercy, particularly in burying the dead.

- Chapter 2 -

Tobias leaves his dinner to bury the dead: he loses his sight by God’s permission, for manifestation of his patience.

- Chapter 3 -

The prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are heard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them.

- Chapter 4 -

Tobias thinking he shall die, gives his son godly admonitions: and tells him of money he had lent to a friend.

- Chapter 5 -

Young Tobias seeking a guide for his journey, the angel Raphael, in shape of a man, undertakes this office.

- Chapter 6 -

By the angel’s advice young Tobias takes hold on a fish that assaults him. Reserves the heart, the gall, and the liver for medicines. They lodge at the house of Raguel, whose daughter Sara, Tobias is to marry; she had before been married to seven husbands, who were all slain by a devil.

- Chapter 7 -

They are kindly entertained by Raguel. Tobias demands Sara to wife.

- Chapter 8 -

Tobias burns part of the fish’s liver, and Raphael binds the devil. Tobias and Sara pray.

- Chapter 9 -

The angel Raphael goes to Gabelus, receives the money, and brings him to the marriage.

- Chapter 10 -

The parents lament the long absence of their son Tobias. He sets out to return.

- Chapter 11 -

Tobias anoints his father’s eyes with the fish’s gall, and he recovers his sight.

- Chapter 12 -

Raphael makes himself known.

- Chapter 13 -

Tobias the father praises God, exhorting all Israel to do the same. Prophesies the restoration and better state of Jerusalem.

- Chapter 14 -

Old Tobias dies at the age of a hundred and two years, after exhorting his son and grandsons to piety, foreseeing that Ninive shall be destroyed, and Jerusalem rebuilt. The younger Tobias returns with his family to Raguel, and dies happily as he had lived.