Tobit is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Roman Catholic,
Greek Orthodox, and Russian Orthodox
Churches.

1 The book of the words of Tobit, the son
of Tobiel, the son of Ananiel, the son of
Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of
Asiel, of the tribe of Naphtali;

2 who in the days of Enemessar† king
of the Assyrians was carried away captive
out of Thisbe, which is on the right hand of
Kedesh Naphtali in Galilee above Asher.

3 I, Tobit walked in the ways of truth and
righteousness all the days of my life, and
I did many alms deeds to my kindred and
my nation, who went with me into the land
of the Assyrians, to Nineveh.

4 When I was in my own country, in the
land of Israel, while I was yet young, all
the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away
from the house of Jerusalem, which was
chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that
allthe tribes should sacrifice there, and the
temple of the habitation of the Most High
washallowed and builtthereinfor all ages.

5 All the tribes which fell away together
sacrificed to the heifer Baal, and so did the
house of Naphtali my father.

6 I alone went often to Jerusalem at the
feasts, as it has been ordained to all Israel
by an everlasting decree, having the first
fruits and the tenths of my increase, and
that which wasfirst shorn; and I gave them
at the altar to the priests the sons of Aaron.

7 I gave a tenth part of all my increase
to the sons of Levi, who ministered at
Jerusalem. A second tenth part I sold
away, and went, and spent it each year at
Jerusalem.

8 A third tenth I gave to them to whom
it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s
mother had commanded me, because I
was left an orphan by my father.

9 When I became a man, I took as wife
Anna of the seed of our own family. With
her, I became the father of Tobias.