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A Deuterocanonical tale of piety, angels, and quiet providence.

Tobit is one of the Deuterocanonical books, recognized by the Catholic Church as part of the Old Testament though absent from the Hebrew Bible and most Protestant Bibles. Likely written in the third or second century BC, it follows the blinded exile Tobit, his son Tobias, and the angel Raphael, who travels with them in disguise. Read it from Tobit chapter 1.

Tobit is one of the Deuterocanonical books accepted by the Catholic Church as part of the Old Testament canon, though not included in the Hebrew Bible or most Protestant Bibles. Likely composed between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, it is set among Israelite exiles in Assyria and follows the righteous but blinded Tobit, his son Tobias, and the angel Raphael, who travels with Tobias in human disguise to recover a family debt and free Sarah from a demonic affliction. Major themes include almsgiving, filial devotion, marital fidelity, and God's hidden providence working through everyday faithfulness and family loyalty. Read Tobit online here, verse by verse.

Its story of a family debt recovered and a demon-afflicted woman freed through Raphael's guidance highlights almsgiving, marital fidelity, and God's hidden providence in ordinary faithfulness. Readers of Old Testament narrative history may also enjoy <a href="/bible/drc/judges">Judges</a> and <a href="/bible/drc/ruth">Ruth</a> for similar stories of God at work through unlikely figures.