Tobit 2:3
Good News Translation
So Tobias went out to look for such a person. But he quickly returned, shouting, "Father! Father!" "Yes, what is it?" I asked. "One of our people has just been murdered! Someone strangled him and threw his body into the marketplace."

New Revised Standard Version
So Tobias went to look for some poor person of our people. When he had returned he said, “Father!” And I replied, “Here I am, my child.” Then he went on to say, “Look, father, one of our own people has been murdered and thrown into the market place, and now he lies there strangled.”

Contemporary English Version
Tobias went out to look for some Israelites who were poor. But he returned alone and said, "Father!" "What's the matter?" I asked. "An Israelite has been murdered!" Tobias answered. "He was strangled, then his body was thrown down and left lying in the street."

New American Bible
Tobiah went out to look for some poor person among our kindred, but he came back and cried, “Father!” I said to him, “Here I am, son.” He answered, “Father, one of our people has been murdered! He has been thrown out into the market place, and there he lies strangled.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body.

Tobit 2:1
But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,

Tobit 2:2
He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

Tobit 2:4
And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

Tobit 2:5
And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,

Context
Tobit 2
2He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us. 3And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body. 4And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.…
Cross References
Tobit 2:1
But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house,

Tobit 2:2
He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

Tobit 2:4
And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

Tobit 2:5
And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,



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Tobit 2:2
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