Holy Scripture

Tobit 3:5

Source: Septuagint

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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.

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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.

— Tobit 3:5 —

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 Ecbatana a city of Media, Sarah the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father’s maids;

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