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| [1]Tobias was of the tribe & citie of Nepthali, which lyeth in the hye countreys of Galilee aboue Naasson, beside ye way that leadeth to the west, hauyng the citie of Sephet vpon the left side. |
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| [2]Though he was taken prisoner in the dayes of Salmanasar king of the Assyrians, neuerthelesse beyng in captiuitie, he forsoke not the way of trueth: |
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| [3]In so much that whatsoeuer he might get, he parted it dayly with his felowe prisoners and brethren that were of his kinred. |
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| [4]And though he were younger then al in the tribe of Nephthali, yet did not he behaue him selfe childyshly in his workes. |
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| [5]And when all the other went to the golden calues whiche Ieroboam the king of Israel had made, he alone fled al their companies, |
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| [6]And gat him to Hierusalem vnto the temple of the Lorde, and there worshipped the Lord God of Israel, faythfully offering of al his first fruites and tithes: |
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| [7]So that in the thirde yere, he ministred all the tithes vnto the straungers and conuertes. |
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| [8]These and such like thinges dyd he obserue according to the law of God when he was yet but young. |
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| [9]But when he was a man, he toke out of his owne tribe a wyfe called Anna: and of her he begat a sonne, whom he called after his owne name, |
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| [10]And taught him from his youth vp to feare God, and to refrayne from al sinne, |
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| [11]Now when he with his wife, his sonne, and with all his kinred, was come in captiuitie vnto the citie of Niniue, |
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| [12]What time as they all dyd eate of the meates of the heathen: he kept his soule, and was neuer defiled in their meates. |
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| [13]And for so much as he was mindeful of the Lorde in all his heart, God gaue him fauour in the sight of Salmanasar the king, |
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| [14]Which gaue him power to go where he woulde, and so had he libertie to do whatsoeuer he woulde. |
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| [15]So went Tobias vnto all them that were in captiuitie [and comforted them] and gaue them wholsome exhortations. |
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| [16]And when he came to Rages a citie of the Medes, hauing ten talentes of siluer (of the thinges wherewith the king had honoured him) |
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| [17]And sawe among a great companie of people of his kinred, one Gabelus which was of his owne tribe, beyng in necessite, he gaue him the sayde wayght of siluer vnder an hande writyng. |
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| [18]After a long season, when Salmanasar the kyng was dead, and Sennacherib his sonne raigned in his steade, which hated the children of Israel: |
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| [19]Tobias went dayly throughout all his kinrede, and comforted them, and gaue of his goods to euery one of them as much as he might. |
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| [20]He fed the hungry, clothed the naked, and buried the dead and slayne, and that diligently. |
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| [21]And when Sennacherib the king came agayne and fled out of Iurie (what time as god punished him for his blasphemie) & in his wrath slue many of the children of Israel: Tobias buried their bodies. |
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| [22]But when it was told the king, he commaunded to slay him, and toke away all his goodes. |
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| [23]Neuerthelesse, Tobias with his sonne and with his wyfe, fled his way naked, and was hyd: for there were many that loued hym. |
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| [24]But after fourtie and fiue dayes the king was slayne of his owne sonnes: |
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| [25]Then came Tobias againe to his house, and all his goodes were restored vnto him. |
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