Tobit, Chapter 3
Introduction
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- Manuscript scan: The actual folio(s) of Codex Sinaiticus containing this chapter, from the Codex Sinaiticus Project (codexsinaiticus.org). Each section links to the specific folio holding its verses.
- Original text: The Codex Sinaiticus Project's verbatim transcription of the folio shown (uncial letters, lunate sigma, nomina sacra preserved).
- English translation: King James Version Apocrypha (1611; 1769 text), public domain, retrieved verbatim from ebible.org eng-kjv USFM (KJV with Apocrypha).
Recension: Codex Sinaiticus preserves the longer Greek recension of Tobit (GII). The King James Version translates the shorter recension (GI, as in Vaticanus and Alexandrinus). Wording therefore differs substantially between the two columns even where verse numbers coincide; that difference is itself one of the most important facts about the text of Tobit, and it can be read directly off the folio.
How was this verified? (Provenance)
1και περιλυποϲ γενομενοϲ τη ψυχη > και ϲτεναξαϲ εκλαυϲα και ηρξαμην > προϲευχεϲθαι μετα ϲτεναγμων 2δικαιοϲ ει κε και πατα τα εργα ϲου δικαια και παϲαι αι οδοι > ϲου ελεημοϲυνη και αληθεια ˙ ϲυ κρινειϲ τον αιωνα · 3και νυν ϲυ κε μνηϲθητι μου και επιβλεψον ˙ και μη με εκδικηϲηϲ ταιϲ αμαρτιαιϲ μου · και εν τοιϲ αγνοημαϲιν μου και των πατερων μου ˙ ημαρτον εναντιον ϲου 4και παρηκουϲα των εντολων ϲου ˙ και εδωκαϲ ημαϲ ειϲ αρπαγη και αιχμαλωϲια και θανατον · και ειϲ παραβολην κ(αι) λαλημα και ονειδιϲμον εν παϲιν τοιϲ εθνεϲιν εν οιϲ ημαϲ διεϲκορπιϲαϲ ˙ 5και νυν πολλαι ϲου αι κριϲειϲ ϋπαρχουϲιν αληθιναι ποιηϲαι εξ εμου περι των αμαρτιων μου οτι ουκ εποιηϲαμε ταϲ εντολαϲ ϲου και ουκ επορευθημεν αληθινωϲ ενωπιον ϲου
1Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying, 2O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever. 3Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and ignorances, and the sins of my fathers, who have sinned before thee: 4For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed. 5And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to my sins and my fathers’: because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.
6και νυν κατα το αρε>ϲτον ϲου ποιηϲον μετ εμου και επιταξον αναλαβειν το πνα μου εξ εμου οπωϲ απολυθω α>πο προϲωπου τηϲ γηϲ και γενωμαι γη διο λυϲιτελει μοι αποθανειν μαλλο η ζην οτι ονειδιϲμουϲ ψευδειϲ ηκουϲα κ(αι) λυπη πολλη μετ εμου κε επιταξον οπωϲ απολυθω απο τηϲ αναγκηϲ ταυτηϲ απολυϲον με ειϲ τον τοπον τον αιωνιον και > μη αποϲτρεψηϲ το προϲωπον ϲου κε απ εμου διο λυϲιτελει μοι αποθανειν μαλλον η βλεπειν αναγκην πολλην εν τη ζωη μου και μη ακουειν ονειδιϲμουϲ 7εν τη ημερα ταυτη ϲυνεβη ϲαρρα τη θυγατρι ραγουηλ του εν εκβατανοιϲ τηϲ μηδειαϲ και αυτη ακουϲαι ονιδιϲμουϲ υπο μιαϲ των παιδιϲκων του πατροϲ εαυτηϲ 8διοτι ην > εκδεδομενη ανδραϲιν επτα και α>ϲμοδεοϲ το δαιμονιον το πονηρον απεκτεννεν αυτουϲ πριν η γενε>ϲθαι αυτουϲ μετ αυτηϲ καθαπερ αποδεδιγμενον εϲτι ταιϲ γυναιξιν και ειπεν αυτη η > παιδιϲκη ϲυ ει η αποκτεννουϲα τουϲ ανδραϲ ϲου ϊδου ηδη απεκδεδοϲαι επτα ανδραϲιν και ενοϲ αυτων ουκ ωνομαϲθηϲ 9τι ημαϲ μαϲτιγοιϲ περι τω ανδρων ϲου οτι α>πεθανον βαδιζε μετ αυτων και μη ϊδοιμεν υϊον μηδε θυγατερα ειϲ τον αιωνα 10εν τη ημερα εκεινη ελυπηθη εν τη ψυχη και εκλαυϲεν κ(αι) αναβαϲα ειϲ το ϋπερωον του πατροϲ αυτηϲ ηθεληϲεν απαγξαϲθαι και παλιν ελογιϲατο και > λεγει μηποτε ονειδιϲωϲιν τον πρα μου και ερουϲιν > αυτω μια ϲοι ϋπηρχεν θυγατηρ αγαπητη και αυτη απηγξατο απο των κακων και καταξω το γηραϲ του πατροϲ μου μετα λυπηϲ > ειϲ αδουϲ χρηϲιμωτερον μοι εϲτιν μη απαγξαϲθαι αλλα δεηθηναι του κυ οπωϲ αποθανω και μηκετι ονιδιϲμουϲ ακουϲω εν τη ζωη μου
6Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me. 7It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father’s maids; 8Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them. 9Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter. 10When she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
11εν αυτω τω καιρω διαπεταϲαϲα ταϲ > χειραϲ προϲ την θυριδα εδεηθη και ειπεν ˙ ευλογητοϲ ει θεε ελεημων και ευλογητον το ο>νομα ϲου ειϲ τουϲ αιωναϲ ˙ και ευλογηϲατωϲαν ϲε πατα τα εργα ϲου ειϲ τον αιωνα ˙ 12και νυ επι ϲε το προϲωπο μου και τουϲ οφθαλμουϲ μου ανεβλεψα ˙ 13ειπον απολυθηναι με απο τηϲ γηϲ και μη ακουειν με μηκετι ονιδιϲμουϲ . 14ϲυ γινωϲκειϲ δε>ϲποτα οτι καθαρα ειμι απο παϲηϲ α>καθαρϲιαϲ ανδροϲ ˙ 15και ουχι εμολυνα μου το ονομα ˙ και ουδε το ονομα του πατροϲ μου εν τη γη τηϲ αιχμαλωϲιαϲ μου ˙ μονογενηϲ ειμι τω πατρι μου · και ουκ υπαρχει αυτω ετερον > τεκνον ϊνα κληρονομηϲη αυτον ˙ ουδε αδελφοϲ αυτω εγγυϲ ουτε ϲυγγενηϲ αυτω ϋπαρχει ϊνα ϲυντηρηϲω αυτην αυτω γυναικα ˙ ηδη απωλοτο μοι επτα και ϊνα τι μοι εϲτιν ετι ζη · και ει μη ϲοι δοκει αποκτειναι με κα νυν ειϲακουϲον ονειδιϲμον μου
11Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever. 12And now, O Lord, I set mine eyes and my face toward thee, 13And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the reproach. 14Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man, 15And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that I hear no more reproach.
16εν αυτω τω καιρω ειϲηκουϲθη η προϲευχη αμφοτερων ενωπιον τηϲ δοξηϲ του θυ ˙ 17και απεϲταλη ραφαηλ ϊαϲαϲθαι τουϲ δυο ˙ τωβειν απολυϲαι τα λευκωματα απο των οφθαλμων αυτου · ϊνα ϊδη τοιϲ ο>φθαλμοιϲ το φωϲ του θυ ˙ και ϲαρρα τη ραγουηλ δουναι αυτην τωβεια τω ϋιω τωβειθ γυναικα > και λυϲαι αϲμοδαιο το δαιμονιον το πονηρον απ αυτηϲ διοτι τωβια επιβαλλει κληρονομηϲαι αυτην παρα πανταϲ τουϲ θελονταϲ λαβειν αυτην εν εκεινω τω καιρω επεϲτρεψεν τω>βειθ απο τηϲ αυληϲ ειϲ τον οικον αυτου και ϲαρρα η του ρα>γουηλ και αυτη κατεβη εκ του ϋπερωου ˙
16So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God. 17And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale away the whiteness of Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sara the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
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Source & Cross-References
- Source text: Codex Sinaiticus folio + transcription (codexsinaiticus.org) + King James Version Apocrypha (1611; 1769 text) — view original
- Critical edition: Tischendorf 8th edition (1869) / Codex Sinaiticus transcription
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