6 And I alone often went up to Jerusalem to the feasts, as the everlasting institution commanded all Israel, with the firstfruits and tithes of the produce of the land, and the firstfruits of the wool of the sheep

7 And he gave it to the priests, the sons of Aaron, for the altar: he gave the tithe of all the produce to the sons of Levi who served in Jerusalem; he sold another tithe, and every year he went and spent it in Jerusalem;

8 And the third I gave to whom it belonged, as Deborah my father's mother commanded me, when I was left an orphan after my father.

9 And when I came to manhood, I took a wife, Hannah, of our father's lineage, and begat Tobias by her.

10 And when I was taken captive to Nineveh, all my brethren and my fellow-countrymen were eating of the food of the heathen,

11 but I have kept my soul, and have not eaten,

12 for I have remembered God with all my soul.

13 And the Most High granted me mercy and favor with Enemessar, and I was his supplier;

14 And he went into Media, and gave to Gabael the brother of Gabriel, in the Ragae of the Medes, ten talents of silver.

15 And when Enemessar died, his son Sennacherib reigned in his stead, whose ways were not steady, and I was no longer able to go into Media.

16 In the days of Enemessar I did many good deeds to my brethren:

17 To the hungry he gave my bread, to the naked my garments, and if he saw any of my tribe dead, and cast out of the wall of Nineveh, he buried him.

18 And I also buried in secret those whom king Sennacherib had slain, when he returned from Judah being put to flight. And he slew many in his wrath. And the king searched for the corpses, but they were not found.

19 One of the Ninevites went and told the king that I was burying them; Then I disappeared. When I learned that they were trying to kill me, I fled from the city out of fear.