Tobit 1:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ giving it to the orphans and widows and to the converts who had attached themselves to the Israelites. In the third year I would bring it and give it to them, and we would eat it according to the ordinance decreed concerning it in the law of Moses and according to the instructions of Deborah, the mother of my father Tobiel, for my father had died and left me an orphan.

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Common English Bible

⁸ I gave this to orphans and widows, and to Gentiles who had joined Israel. In the third year, when I brought and gave it to them, we would eat together according to the instruction recorded in Moses’ Law, as Deborah my grandmother had taught me (for my father had died and left me an orphan).

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ These and similar such things, even as a boy, he observed according to the law of God.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according to the law of God.

Good News Translation (US Version)

⁸ But every third year, I would give a third tithe to widows and orphans and to foreigners living among my people, and we would eat the festival meal together. I did this in keeping with the Law of Moses, which Deborah, the mother of my grandfather Ananiel, had taught me to obey. (I had been left an orphan when my father died.)

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

⁸ A third tenth I gave to them to whom it was appropriate, as Deborah my father’s mother had commanded me, because I was left an orphan by my father.

Tobit 1:8 Cross References