Tobit 1:8
Good News Translation
But every third year, I would give a third tithe to widows and orphans and to foreigners living among my people, and we would eat the festival meal together. I did this in keeping with the Law of Moses, which Deborah, the mother of my grandfather Ananiel, had taught me to obey. (I had been left an orphan when my father died.)

New Revised Standard Version
A third tenth I would give to the orphans and widows and to the converts who had attached themselves to Israel. I would bring it and give it to them in the third year, and we would eat it according to the ordinance decreed concerning it in the law of Moses and according to the instructions of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel, for my father had died and left me an orphan.

Contemporary English Version
When I was young, my father died and left me as an orphan. So it was my grandmother Deborah who told me to be careful and obey what the Law of Moses commanded about taking care of orphans and widows and of those who had come from other countries to become part of Israel. That's why every third year, I would set aside a third tenth of my harvest and use part of it to hold a festival for them. Then I would give them the rest.

New American Bible
The third-year tithe I gave to orphans, widows, and converts who had joined the Israelites. Every third year I would bring them this offering, and we ate it in keeping with the decree laid down in the Mosaic law concerning it, and according to the commands of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel; for my father had died and left me an orphan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God.

Tobit 1:6
And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,

Tobit 1:7
So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.

Tobit 1:9
But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name,

Tobit 1:10
And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain from all sin.

Context
Tobit 1
7So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers. 8These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God. 9But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name,…
Cross References
Tobit 1:6
And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored the Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his tithes,

Tobit 1:7
So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes, and strangers.

Tobit 1:9
But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and had a son by her, whom he called after his own name,

Tobit 1:10
And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain from all sin.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 1:7
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