Tobit · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Tobit 2 Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Notes on this text (1)
- Includes the books not found in the Hebrew Bible (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, 1–3 Maccabees, 2 and 3 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh), as in the Synodal editions.
1 Когда я возвратился в дом свой, и отданы мне были Анна, жена моя, и Товия, сын мой, в праздник пятидесятницы, в святую седмицу седмиц, приготовлен у меня был хороший обед, и я возлег есть.
1 Now when I had come home again, and my wife Anna was restored to me, and my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared for me, and I sat down to eat.
2 Увидев много снедей, я сказал сыну моему: пойди и приведи, кого найдешь, бедного из братьев наших, который помнит Господа, а я подожду тебя.
2 I saw abundance of meat, and I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man you find of our kindred, who is mindful of the Lord. Behold, I wait for you.”
3 И пришел он и сказал: отец мой, один из племени нашего, удавленный, брошен на площади.
3 Then he came, and said, “Father, one of our race is strangled, and has been cast out in the marketplace.”
4 Тогда я, прежде нежели стал есть, поспешно выйдя, убрал его в одно жилье до захождения солнца.
4 Before I had tasted anything, I sprang up, and took him up into a chamber until the sun had set.
5 Возвратившись, совершил омовение и ел хлеб мой в скорби.
5 Then I returned, washed myself, ate my bread in heaviness,
6 И вспомнил я пророчество Амоса, как он сказал: праздники ваши обратятся в скорбь, и все увеселения ваши - в плач.
6 and remembered the prophecy of Amos, as he said, “Your feasts will be turned into mourning, and all your mirth into lamentation.
7 И я плакал. Когда же зашло солнце, я пошел и, выкопав могилу, похоронил его.
7 So I wept: and when the sun had set, I went and dug a grave, and buried him.
8 Соседи насмехались надо мною и говорили: еще не боится он быть убитым за это дело; бегал уже, и вот опять погребает мертвых.
8 My neighbors mocked me, and said, “He is no longer afraid to be put to death for this matter; and yet he fled away. Behold, he buries the dead again.”
9 В эту самую ночь, возвратившись после погребения и будучи нечистым, я лег спать за стеною двора, и лице мое не было покрыто.
9 The same night I returned from burying him, and slept by the wall of my courtyard, being polluted; and my face was uncovered.
10 И не заметил я, что на стене были воробьи. Когда глаза мои были открыты, воробьи испустили теплое на глаза мои, и сделались на глазах моих бельма. И ходил я к врачам, но они не помогли мне. Ахиахар доставлял мне пропитание, доколе не отправился в Елимаиду.
10 I didn’t know that there were sparrows in the wall. My eyes were open and the sparrows dropped warm dung into my eyes, and white films came over my eyes. I went to the physicians, and they didn’t help me; but Achiacharus nourished me, until I went into Elymais.
11 А потом жена моя Анна в женских отделениях пряла шерсть
11 My wife Anna wove cloth in the women’s chambers,
12 и посылала богатым людям, которые давали ей плату и однажды в придачу дали козленка.
12 and sent the work back to the owners. They on their part paid her wages, and also gave her a kid.
13 Когда принесли его ко мне, он начал блеять; и я спросил жену: откуда этот козленок? не краденый ли? отдай его, кому он принадлежит! ибо непозволительно есть краденое.
13 But when it came to my house, it began to cry, and I said to her, “Where did this kid come from? Is it stolen? Give it back to the owners; for it is not lawful to eat anything that is stolen.”
14 Она отвечала: это подарили мне сверх платы. Но я не верил ей и настаивал, чтобы отдала его, кому он принадлежит, и разгневался на нее. А она в ответ сказала мне: где же милостыни твои и праведные дела? вот как все они обнаружились на тебе!
14 But she said, “It has been given to me for a gift more than the wages.” I didn’t believe her, and I asked her to return it to the owners; and I was ashamed of her. But she answered and said to me, “Where are your alms and your righteous deeds? Behold, you and all your works are known.”
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“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).
… of theft; he did not like to hear the sound of any stolen thing in his house; and she, maintaining what she had done, reproached her husband; and when he said, "Restore it if it be stolen;" she answered insultingly, "Where are thy righteous deeds?" How great was her blindness who maintained the theft; and how clear a light he …
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