The edition opens with the book of the words of Tobit. The artwork does not authenticate portraits or authorship.

· Greek

Source edition: Available POB working translation anchored in Swete 1909 Greek, with a declared local Sinaiticus-form selection at Tobit 6:3–6 applied 2026-10-04. This is an eclectic working book, not a continuous Sinaiticus edition or a newly established critical text. Pinned revision: 0aa3e29d92329a4f9420c88f0fcf20ba48e76757

Chapter and verse numbers follow the available POB edition, including its supplied gaps. Source records are displayed once in their supplied order; missing numbers are not reconstructed.

• Tobit 3:1[a] The Greek text is brief here: 'And being grieved, I wept, and I prayed in anguish, saying.' A longer Semitic-form tradition expands the lament substantially in the following lines; this opening clause remains well represented by the Greek.
• Tobit 3:2[a] Or 'all your ways are mercies and faithfulness.' The Greek ἐλεημοσύναι can denote merciful acts, and ἀλήθεια can carry the nuance 'faithfulness.'
• Tobit 3:3[a] Or 'do not exact vengeance for my sins.' The Greek verb can carry the sense of avenging or exacting justice; here it is rendered 'punish' because the prayer asks God not to requite sins.
• Tobit 3:3[b] 'My errors done in ignorance' translates a term for wrongs committed unwittingly or without full awareness.
• Tobit 3:3[c] That is, 'my ancestors' or 'my forefathers.'
• Tobit 3:4[a] Or 'a byword of disgrace' or 'an object of reproach.' The Greek phrase literally combines 'proverb/byword' with 'reproach.'
• Tobit 3:5[a] Or 'your judgments are many and just.' The Greek says 'true,' which in context affirms the rightness of God's judgments.
• Tobit 3:5[b] 'Walk in truth' is a biblical idiom for living faithfully and truthfully before God.
• Tobit 3:6[a] Or 'become earth.' The Greek literally says 'become earth,' a death idiom rendered here as 'become dust.'
• Tobit 3:6[b] 'The everlasting place' is a general expression for the place of the dead; the Greek does not specify a more developed doctrinal term here.
• Tobit 3:7[a] Or 'was insulted' or 'was taunted'; the Greek verb conveys public reproach or verbal abuse.
• Tobit 3:8[a] Or, 'before they had relations with her.' The Greek expresses conjugal union euphemistically.
• Tobit 3:9[a] Or, more explicitly by implication, 'go die with them.' The Greek says only 'go with them,' but the dead husbands are in view.
• Tobit 3:10[a] Or “to the realm of the dead” or “to the grave.” The Greek reads “to Hades.”
• Tobit 3:11[a] Or “let all your works praise you forever.” The Greek repeats the same blessing word-group used earlier in the verse.
• Tobit 3:12[a] Or, more literally, 'I have given my eyes and my face to you.' The Greek likely uses bodily language idiomatically for turning oneself in prayer toward God.
• Tobit 3:13[a] Or 'set me free from the earth' or 'remove me from the earth.' The Greek expression is an indirect plea for release from earthly life.
• Tobit 3:15[a] Or 'a close kinsman'; the Greek literally says 'a near brother,' likely referring more broadly to a near male relative in the family line.
• Tobit 3:15[b] That is, seven husbands in the narrative context, though the Greek here says only 'seven.'
• Tobit 3:15[c] The clause about 'a near brother' and 'a son' is textually and syntactically difficult in Greek; this translation stays close to the wording without claiming more certainty than the source allows.
• Tobit 3:16[a] Or 'before God's glory' or 'in the presence of the glory.' The Greek does not explicitly name God in this clause.
• Tobit 3:17[a] Or, more idiomatically, 'because Tobiah had the right to marry her.' The Greek says 'inherit her,' reflecting the legal-family framework of the story.
• Tobit 3:18[a] Or 'do not disregard any beneficial counsel.'
• Tobit 3:19[a] Or, more literally, 'that your ways may become straight.' The Greek can express either becoming straight or being made straight.
• Tobit 3:19[b] The clause 'For no nation has counsel' is terse in Greek and may mean that no people possesses reliable counsel in itself, in contrast to the Lord who gives what is good.
• Tobit 3:20[a] Or 'I am making known to you' for ἐπιδεικνύω; the Greek verb can emphasize drawing someone's attention to the matter rather than physically displaying it.
• Tobit 3:20[b] 'Rages' is also often spelled 'Rhages' in English transliteration.