But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good dinner was prepared in Tobias's house, 2He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God, to feast with us. 3And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body. 4And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the sun was down, he might bury him cautiously. 5And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear, 6Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your festival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning. 7So when the sun was down, he went and buried him. 8Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already commandment was given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst scarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead? 9But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies of them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight buried them. 10Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came to his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,