³I, Tobit, walked in the ways of truth and righteousness all the days of my life, and I performed many acts of charity to my brethren and countrymen who went with me into the land of the Assyrians, to Ninʹeveh. ¹When I arrived home and my wife Anna and my son Tobiʹas were restored to me, at the feast of Pentecost, which is the sacred festival of the seven weeks, a good dinner was prepared for me and I sat down to eat. ²Upon seeing the abundance of food I said to my son, “Go and bring whatever poor man of our brethren you may find who is mindful of the Lord, and I will wait for you.” ³But he came back and said, “Father, one of our people has been strangled and thrown into the market place.” ⁴So before I tasted anything I sprang up and removed the body to a place of shelter until sunset. ⁵And when I returned I washed myself and ate my food in sorrow. ⁶Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said, “Your feasts shall be turned into mourning, and all your festivities into lamentation.” And I wept. ⁷When the sun had set I went and dug a grave and buried the body. ⁸And my neighbors laughed at me and said, “He is no longer afraid that he will be put to death for doing this; he once ran away, and here he is burying the dead again!”

¹Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! ²His descendants will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. ³Wealth and riches are in his house; and his righteousness endures for ever. ⁴Light rises in the darkness for the upright; the LORD is gracious, merciful, and righteous. ⁵It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice. ⁶For the righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered for ever.

¹And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard, and set a hedge around it, and dug a pit for the wine press, and built a tower, and let it out to tenants, and went into another country. ²When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. ³And they took him and beat him, and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴Again he sent to them another servant, and they wounded him in the head, and treated him shamefully. ⁵And he sent another, and him they killed; and so with many others, some they beat and some they killed. ⁶He had still one other, a beloved son; finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷But those tenants said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ⁸And they took him and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard. ⁹What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants, and give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰Have you not read this scripture: ‘The very stone which the builders rejected has become the head of the corner; ¹¹this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?” ¹²And they tried to arrest him, but feared the multitude, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them; so they left him and went away.