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Book of Tobit
The Book of Tobit tells the story of Tobit, a Jew living in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile, and his son Tobias. The Catholic and Orthodox churches accept it as part of the Old Testament, while most Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha (books outside the canon).
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- TobitBible
Tobit is a book included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles but classified by Protestants as part of the Apocrypha; it is also the name of the book's main character. The story is set in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile and features the angel Raphael.
- TobiasPeople
Tobias is the protagonist of the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) of the Old Testament, and the son of Tobit. Guided on a journey by the angel Raphael, he married Sarah and cured his blind father.
- Deuterocanonical BooksBible
The deuterocanonical books are books such as Tobit, Judith, and Maccabees that the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church include in the Old Testament but that are absent from the Hebrew Bible and the Protestant Old Testament. Protestants commonly call them the Apocrypha.
- TobiahPeople
Tobiah is an Ammonite official in the Book of Nehemiah. Together with Sanballat and Geshem, he opposed the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. He later occupied a chamber in the temple and was expelled by Nehemiah.
- JedaiahPeople
Jedaiah was one of the returned exiles from Babylon mentioned in the Book of Zechariah. Together with Heldai and Tobijah, he was connected with the making of a crown for Joshua the high priest from the silver and gold they had brought (Zechariah 6:10, 14).
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