14:1. Tobit completed praising God.
14:2. He was 58 years old
when
he lost his sight
which
was restored to him
after
another eight years.
So
he gave in charity
and
his reverence for God increased
as
he praised Him.
14:3. Then when he was older
he
summoned his son
and
the followers of his son
and
said to him:
My
son, fetch your followers
because
I am old
and
ready to depart
from
this life.
14:4. Go to Media my son
for
I surely believe
those
things that Jonas the prophet
spoke
about Nineve
about
it being overthrown
and
that peace shall be in Media
for
a period of time
and
that our brothers
will
lie buried in the earth
within
that good land.
And
along
with the
inside
it will be burned
and
will be abandoned for some time.
14:5. But again God will have mercy on them
and
will bring them again into the land
where
they shall rebuild the temple
but
not like the first
until
it is fulfilled in time.
Then
afterward they will return
from
all the places of their captivity
and
will gloriously restore
Then
the
will
be built within it
forever
as a glorious building
just
as the prophets spoke of.
14:6. Then people will have a change of heart
and
will truly revere Lord God
and
bury their idols.
14:7. May all people praise the Lord
and
may His followers confess God
and
the Almighty will lift up His followers.
Everyone
who truly loves the Lord God
shall
rejoice with righteousness
and
show mercy to our brothers.
14:8. So now my son
take
leave from Nineve
because
those things spoken of
by
the prophet Jonas
shall
surely come to pass.
14:9. But keep the teachings
and
the instructions
and
have mercy and honesty
and
this will be your reward.
14:10. But bury me decently
and
your mother with me.
But
don’t hesitate regarding Nineve.
Remember
my son
how
Aman handled Achiacharus
who
raised him
and
how he brought him
from
light into darkness
and
how he rewarded him again.
Yet
Achiacharus was saved
but
the other had his reward:
Because
he went into darkness.
Manasses
gave in charity
and
escaped the snares of death
which
they had set for him.
But
Aman fell into the snare
and
then perished.
14:11. So therefore, my son
consider
the purpose of charity
and
how righteousness does deliver.
After
saying these things
his
spirit left while in the bed
being
158 years old.
Tobias
buried his body with honor.
14:12. Then when his mother Anna died
he
buried her body with his father’s.
Then
Tobias departed with his wife
and
their children to Ecbatane
to
Raguel his father in law.
14:13. When Tobias was elderly
he
buried his father and mother in law
and
inherited their estate
along
with his father Tobit’s.
14:14. Then he died at Ecbatane in Media
when
he was 127 years old.
14:15 But before his body died
he
heard of the destruction of Nineve
after
it was overtaken
by
Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus.
So
before his death
he
prayed for Nineve.
