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Tobit 9
POB Greek working edition anchored in Swete (1909), retaining its declared local longer-form selection at 6:3–6. Artwork depicts events, reported memories and prayers as this edition presents them.
Source and translation notes
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 9:1[a] Raphael is addressed here as 'Azariah,' the name under which he has been traveling with Tobiah.
- Tobit 9:1[b] The longer Semitic-aligned tradition continues immediately with Tobiah’s instructions to Azariah/Raphael; the Greek witness used here preserves only the opening address in this verse.
- Tobit 9:2[a] Greek literally, 'silver'; here it refers to the money entrusted to Gabael.
- Tobit 9:2[b] Or 'to the wedding feast.' The Greek term can refer either to the marriage itself or to the celebratory banquet.
- Tobit 9:2[c] The parallel Semitic tradition expands the instruction with additional attendants and details about Gabael's house, but the Greek source used here is shorter.
- Tobit 9:3[a] Or, more formally, 'For Raguel has sworn that I should not go out.' The Greek uses 'go out,' but in context it refers to departing from Raguel's house.
- Tobit 9:5[a] Or 'the bond' or 'the promissory note.' The Greek χειρόγραφον can denote a written document acknowledging a financial claim.
- Tobit 9:5[b] Literally, 'the bags in the seals,' that is, the money bags with their seals still intact.
- Tobit 9:6[a] Or 'the marriage feast.' The Greek γάμος can refer either to the marriage itself or to the wedding celebration.
- Tobit 9:15[a] Some marginal witnesses add, 'with a pure and holy blessing.'
- Tobit 9:16[a] Greek witness is fragmentary here in the provided source, preserving only the verb 'you made glad' (orthographic variant: ευφρανας). No object is expressed in the extant Zone 1 text supplied for this verse, so the English remains correspondingly brief.
- Tobit 9:17[a] The Greek witness supplied for this verse is fragmentary in the source data and appears to preserve only the word for 'health' (with a minor manuscript spelling variant) plus a prepositional variant. The translation therefore reflects the surviving wording only, not a reconstructed full sentence.
- Tobit 9:20[a] Some manuscripts read “to them.”
- Tobit 9:21[a] The Greek source on this page is textually crowded and appears to contain duplicated material from the surrounding context. This clause is a clear unit and is translated directly; later clauses in the page reflect overlapping recensional material.
Tobit 9:20
To him, or to them
The sealed deposit and the counting of days · Tobit 9
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