Tobit 2:12
Good News Translation
The people she worked for would pay her when she delivered the cloth. One spring day, she cut a finished piece of cloth from the loom and took it to the people who had ordered it. They paid her the full price and also gave her a goat.

New Revised Standard Version
She used to send what she made to the owners and they would pay wages to her. One day, the seventh of Dystrus, when she cut off a piece she had woven and sent it to the owners, they paid her full wages and also gave her a young goat for a meal.

New American Bible
When she delivered the material to her employers, they would pay her a wage. On the seventh day of the month of Dystrus, she finished the woven cloth and delivered it to her employers. They paid her the full salary and also gave her a young goat for a meal.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 2:10
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 2:11
And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

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,

Tobit 2:14
But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.

Context
Tobit 2
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. 13For 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,…
Cross References
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 2:11
And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind.

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,

Tobit 2:14
But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God all the days of his life.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 2:11
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