Tobit's Last Words

Tobit died peacefully at the age of 112 and was honored at his burial in Nineveh.

²He was 62 when he became blind, and after his sight was restored, he was once again wealthy and generous to the poor. He was always praising God and telling others about God's power.

³Just before Tobit died, he called in his son and said:

They helped Tobit lie down on his bed, and when he died, they buried him with honor.

Tobias Moves to Media

¹²Some time later, Tobias's mother Anna died, and he buried her beside his father. Then Tobias and his wife Sarah moved to the city of Ecbatana in Media, where he lived with his father-in-law Raguel and his mother-in-law Edna.

¹³He treated them with great respect and took care of them until they died; then he buried them. Tobias inherited all Raguel's property, in addition to what had belonged to his own father Tobit.

Everyone respected Tobias,

¹⁴and he died at the age of 117.

¹⁵But he lived long enough to hear that Nineveh had been destroyed, and to see its people being led as prisoners into Media by Cyaxares, the king of Media. And from that time until the day Tobias died, he offered joyful praises to God for what he had done to Nineveh and Assyria.[#3 Macc 7.23.; #14.15 One possible meaning for the difficult Greek text.]