1. Tobit was from the tribe and city of Naphtali (which is in the upper parts of Galilee above Asher, after the way, which leads to the west, that has on its left the city of Sephet).
2. Although he had been taken captive in the days of Shalmaneser, the king of the Assyrians, even in such a situation as captivity, he did not desert the way of truth.
3. So then, every day, all that he was able to obtain, he bestowed on his fellow captive brothers, who were from his kindred.
4. And, when he was among the youngest of any in the tribe of Naphtali, he showed not so much as any childish behavior in his work.
5. And then, when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam, king of Israel, had made, he alone fled from the company of them all.
6. Yet he continued on to Jerusalem, to the temple of the Lord, and there he adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his first-fruits and his tithes.
7. So then, in the third year, he administered all his tithes to new converts and to new arrivals.
8. These and similar such things, even as a boy, he observed according to the law of God.
9. Truly, when he had become a man, he received as wife Anna of his own tribe, and he conceived a son by her, to whom he assigned his own name.
10. From his infancy, he taught him to fear God and to abstain from all sin.
11. Therefore, when, during the captivity, he had arrived with his wife and son at the city of Nineveh, with all his tribe,