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.)
9 When I grew up, I married Anna, a member of my own tribe. We had a son and named him Tobias.
10 Later, I was taken captive and deported to Assyria, and that is how I came to live in Nineveh.While we lived in Nineveh, all my relatives and fellow-Jews used to eat the same kind of food as the other people who lived there,
11 but I refused to do so.
12 Since I took seriously the commands of the Most High God,
13 he made Emperor Shalmaneser respect me, and I was placed in charge of purchasing all the emperor's supplies.
14 Before the emperor died, I made regular visits to the land of Media to buy things for him there. Once, when I was in the city of Rages in Media, I left some bags of money there with Gabael, Gabrias' brother, and asked him to keep them for me. There were more than 300 kilogrammes of silver coins in those bags.