1. In truth, after this, when there was a feast day of the Lord, and a good dinner had been prepared in the house of Tobit,
2. he said to his son: "Go, and bring some others who fear God from our tribe to feast with us."
3. And after he had gone, returning, he reported to him that one of the sons of Israel, with his throat cut, was lying in the street. And immediately, he leapt from his place reclining at table, left behind his dinner, and went forth with fasting to the body.
4. And taking it up, he carried it in secret to his house, so that, after the sun had set, he might bury him cautiously.
5. And after he had hidden the body, he chewed his bread with mourning and fear,
6. remembering the word that the Lord spoke through the prophet Amos: "Your feast days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning."
7. Truly, when the sun had set, he went out, and he buried him.
8. Yet all his neighbors argued with him, saying: "Now, an order was given to execute you because of this matter, and you barely escaped a death sentence, and again you are burying the dead?"
9. But Tobit, fearing God more than the king, stole away the bodies of the slain and concealed them in his house, and in the middle of the night, he buried them.