Tobit

So Tobit finished his thanksgiving.

He was fifty-eight years old when he lost his sight, and after eight years he regained it. He gave alms, and he continued to fear the Lord God and to praise him.

When he was very aged, he called his son, and his son's six sons, and said to him, "My son, take your children; behold, I have grown old, and I am ready to depart out of this life.

Go into Media, my son, because I surely believe all the words which Jonah the prophet spoke about Nineveh, that it will be destroyed. But in Media, there will be peace for a season. Our brothers will be scattered over the earth from that good land, and Jerusalem will be desolate. The house of God in it will be burned and will be desolate for a time.

But God will again have mercy on them, and bring them back into the land where they will build a house, but not like the first, until the times of that age are completed. After this, they will return from the places of their captivity, and will build up Jerusalem with honor. The house of God will be built in it, with a glorious building for all generations forever, just as the prophets spoke about her.

All the nations of the whole world will turn and fear the Lord God truly, and will bury their idols.

All the nations will bless the Lord, and his people will give thanks to God, and the Lord will exalt his people. All who love the Lord God in truth and righteousness will rejoice, showing mercy to our brethren.

Now, my son, depart from Nineveh, because those things which the prophet Jonah spoke will surely happen.

But you, keep the law and the commandments, and be a lover of almsgiving and a righteous man, so that it may be well with you.

Bury me properly, and your mother with me. Then do not stay in Nineveh any longer. Remember, my son, how Nadab treated Achiacharus who raised him, how he brought him out of darkness into the light. And see what reward he gave him. Yet Achiacharus was saved, but the other received his reward, for he went down into darkness. Manasseh gave alms, but he escaped the snare of death which Nadab set for him, but Nadab fell into the snare and perished.

Now therefore, my son, see what almsgiving does, and what unrighteousness does—it brings death. But now my breath fails me." Then they laid him on his bed, and he died, and he was buried honorably.

When Anna his mother was dead, he buried her with his father. But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane, to Raguel his father-in-law,

where he grew old with honor, and he buried his father-in-law and mother-in-law honorably, and he inherited their possessions and his father Tobit's.

He died at Ecbatane in Media, being one hundred twenty-seven years old.

Before he died, he heard of the destruction of Nineveh, which Nebuchadnezzar and Ahasuerus captured. Before his death, he rejoiced over Nineveh.