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Tobit · Revised Version with Apocrypha

Tobit 8 Revised Version with Apocrypha

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About RV
  • Protestant
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
  • NT: Critical text
  • Protestant, with the Apocrypha
  • Formal (word for word)
  • 1895
  • Public domain

Tobit is not in RV1909.

RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 And when they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in unto her.
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2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish thereupon, and made a smoke [therewith. ]
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3 But when the devil smelled the smell, he fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
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4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, Sister, arise, and let us pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.
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5 And Tobias began to say, Blessed art thou, O God of our fathers, and blessed is thy holy and glorious name for ever; let the heavens bless thee, and all thy creatures.
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6 Thou madest Adam, and gavest him Eve his wife for a helper and a stay: of them came the seed of men: thou didst say, it is not good that the man should be alone; let us make him a helper like unto him.
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7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth: command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.
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8 And she said with him, Amen. And they slept both that night.
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9 And Raguel arose, and went and digged a grave,
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10 saying, Lest he also should die.
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11 And Raguel came into his house,
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12 and said to Edna his wife, Send one of the maidservants, and let them see whether he be alive: but if not, that we may bury him, and no man know it.
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13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,
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14 and came forth, and told them that he was alive.
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15 And Raguel blessed God, saying, Blessed art thou, O God, with all pure and holy blessing; and let thy saints bless thee, and all thy creatures; and let all thine angels and thine elect bless thee for ever.
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16 Blessed art thou, because thou hast made me glad; and it hath not befallen me as I suspected; but thou hast dealt with us according to thy great mercy.
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17 Blessed art thou, because thou hast had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents: shew them mercy, O Lord; accomplish their life in health with gladness and mercy.
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18 But he commanded his servants to fill the grave.
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19 And he kept the wedding feast for them fourteen days.
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20 And before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware unto him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;
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21 and that then he should take the half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, [said he, ] when I and my wife shall die.
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What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 8:5–7 Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine (Book III, Chapters 17–21)

    And now, O Lord, Thou knowest that I take not this my sister for lust, but uprightly: therefore have pity on us, O Lord." Chapter 19 — Wicked Men Judge Others by Themselves

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)