OLD TESTAMENT

Tobit 1:4

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When I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, while I was yet young, all the tribe of Naphtali my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, and the temple of the habitation of the Most High was hallowed and built therein for all ages.

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Verse 4. Younger. “Very young,” ( Bible.) or the youngest of those who administered their own affairs. The parents of Tobias were deceased. Calmet.—Greek, “when I was young in my country, in the land of Israel, all the tribe,” and so forth

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