Tobit 2:4
Good News Translation
I jumped up and left the table without even touching my food. I removed the body from the street and carried it to a little shed, where I left it until sunset, when I could bury it.

New Revised Standard Version
Then I sprang up, left the dinner before even tasting it, and removed the body from the square and laid it in one of the rooms until sunset when I might bury it.

Contemporary English Version
We had not started eating, and so I jumped up from the table and went to the street where the body was. I brought it back to my own home and left it in one of the rooms, because I could not bury it until after dark.

New American Bible
I sprang to my feet, leaving the dinner untouched, carried the dead man from the square, and put him in one of the rooms until sundown, so that I might bury him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

Tobit 2:3
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 2:5
And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,

Tobit 2:6
Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.

Context
Tobit 2
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. 5And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,…
Cross References
Tobit 2:2
He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us.

Tobit 2:3
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 2:5
And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,

Tobit 2:6
Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 2:3
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