Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Aramaic and Hebrew where a Qumran copy can be read (4Q196–4Q200), and otherwise the longer Greek of Codex Sinaiticus. The shorter Greek in Swete is not the base. Gaps in Sinaiticus are not filled from a later edition.
1And the words of Tobit’s thanksgiving came to an end.
2He died in peace at the age of one hundred and twelve, and he was buried with honor in Nineveh. He was sixty-two when his eyes failed. After he could see again he lived in good things, he gave gifts of mercy, and he kept on blessing God and thanking him for the greatness of God.
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Sinaiticus gives 112 as the age at death and 62 as the age when the eyes failed. A damaged Hebrew fragment, 4Q200 fragment 7, column ii, has the numbers fifty-eight and fifty-four near the end of the book, and broken words for dying in peace. The lines are not complete enough to show which event the Hebrew numbers belong to, so they do not replace the Greek figures. Both sets are recorded. No average is invented.
3When he was dying he called Tobias his son and commanded him, “Child, take your children away,
4and hurry to Media, because I trust the word of God about Nineveh, the word Nahum spoke, that all of it will happen and will come upon Assyria and Nineveh. Whatever the prophets of Israel spoke, the ones God sent, all of it will come, and not one word will be cut short. Everything will happen at its time. In Media there will be safety, more than among the Assyrians and in Babylon. So I know and I trust that everything God has said will be completed and will happen, and not a word of the sayings will fall. Our kindred who live in the land of Israel will all be counted and taken captive out of the good land. The whole land of Israel will be a ruin. Samaria and Jerusalem will be a ruin. The house of God will be in grief, and it will be burned, until a time.
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Sinaiticus names Nahum and then speaks more broadly of the prophets of Israel. The English follows that Greek. It is not adjusted to a particular Hebrew verse of Nahum.
5And God will have mercy on them again, and God will bring them back to the land of Israel, and they will build the house again, not like the first one, until the time of the ages is filled. After that they will all return from their captivity, and they will build Jerusalem in honor, and the house of God in her will be built as the prophets of Israel spoke about her.
6And all the nations in the whole earth will turn and fear God truly. They will all abandon their idols, which led them falsely astray, and they will bless the God of the age in what is right.
7All the sons of Israel who are saved in those days, remembering God in truth, will be gathered and will come to Jerusalem, and they will live forever in the land of Abraham in safety, and it will be handed over to them. Those who love God in truth will rejoice. Those who do sin and wrong will vanish from the whole earth.
9And now, children, I command you: serve God in truth and do what is pleasing before him. Your children must be charged to do what is right and to give gifts of mercy, so that they remember God and bless his name at every time, in truth and with all their strength. And now you, child, leave Nineveh. Do not stay here. On the day you bury your mother beside me, that same day, do not spend the night inside her borders. I see that there is great wrong in her, and much deceit is carried on in her, and they are not ashamed.
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Sinaiticus has no verse 8. The dying speech continues in this verse. Nothing is supplied for the missing number. Some words in the command to the children are damaged. The commands that are clear are printed. A damaged verb is not replaced with a guess.
10Look, child, at what Nadab did to Ahikar, who had brought him up. Was he not brought down into the earth while he was still alive? God paid back the dishonor to his face. Ahikar came out into the light, and Nadab went into the everlasting dark, because he tried to kill Ahikar. By giving gifts of mercy, Ahikar came out of the death trap Nadab had set for him, and Nadab fell into the death trap and it destroyed him.
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Sinaiticus spells the trap twice, once damaged. One spelling is printed. The story of Nadab and Ahikar is in the Greek. A Qumran line that would replace it was not readable in the fragments checked for this draft.
11And now, children, see what gifts of mercy do, and what wrong does, because it kills. And look, my life is failing.” They laid him on the bed, and he died, and he was buried with honor.
12When his mother died, Tobias buried her beside his father. He and his wife left for Media and lived in Ecbatana with Raguel his father-in-law.
13He looked after them with honor in their old age and buried them in Ecbatana of Media. He inherited the household of Raguel and of Tobit his father.
14And he died at the age of one hundred and seventeen, with honor.
15And before he died he saw and heard the Lord God, forever and ever. Amen.
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Sinaiticus ends with a short sentence: he saw and heard, before dying, the Lord God, forever and ever, amen. It does not, in the words read for this draft, narrate the fall of Nineveh in this verse. That ending is not added from another edition.
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End of Tobit. Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft, not independently reviewed. The English is this project’s text. It is free to copy under CC BY 4.0, with attribution to Kingdoms of Scripture.