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Tobit 8:18-20
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 8:18-20
New Catholic Bible
18 Then he instructed his servants to fill in the grave before daybreak.
19 The Great Wedding Feast. Having asked his wife to bake many loaves of bread, Raguel went out to his flock and selected two oxen and four rams and ordered them to be slaughtered. Thus they began to prepare for the feast.
20 Then he called Tobiah and swore an oath to him: “You shall not depart from here for fourteen days.[a] Rather, you shall stay here eating and drinking with me, and you shall bring joy to my daughter’s heart after all the suffering she has endured.
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- Tobit 8:20 Fourteen days: the duration of the festivities, which normally would take place in the house of the groom, is doubled from one week (see Gen 29:27; Jdg 14:12) to two. They will then be repeated according to custom (Tob 11:18).
