Tobit 2:11
Good News Translation
After Ahikar left, my wife Anna had to go to work, so she took up weaving, like many other women.

New Revised Standard Version
At that time, also, my wife Anna earned money at women’s work.

Contemporary English Version
After Ahikar left Nineveh, my wife worked at home. She would weave a piece of cloth, and when it was finished, she would send it to the owners of the weaving business, and they would pay her. Then, on the seventh day of the month of Dystrus, my wife finished a piece of cloth and sent it to the owners. They gave her the regular payment, and they also gave her a young goat, so we could have a feast.

New American Bible
At that time my wife Anna worked for hire at weaving cloth, doing the kind of work women do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

Tobit 2:9
But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.

Tobit 2:10
Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,

Tobit 2:12
Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.

Tobit 2:13
For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,

Context
Tobit 2
10Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept, 11And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. 12Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.…
Cross References
Tobit 2:9
But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them.

Tobit 2:10
Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,

Tobit 2:12
Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that an example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy Job.

Tobit 2:13
For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept his commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of blindness had befallen him,



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 2:10
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