Tobit 12:13
Good News Translation
On the day you got up from the table without eating your meal in order to bury that corpse, God sent me to test you.

New Revised Standard Version
And that time when you did not hesitate to get up and leave your dinner to go and bury the dead,

Contemporary English Version
When you left the banquet to bury that man who had been murdered,

New American Bible
When you did not hesitate to get up and leave your dinner in order to go and bury that dead man,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee.

Tobit 12:11
I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.

Tobit 12:12
When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

Tobit 12:14
And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil.

Tobit 12:15
For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.

Context
Tobit 12
12When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord. 13And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that temptation should prove thee. 14And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil.…
Cross References
Tobit 12:11
I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the secret from you.

Tobit 12:12
When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and didst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury them by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.

Tobit 12:14
And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil.

Tobit 12:15
For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 12:12
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