- 1 Tobit 1 Α′ Tobit 1 is the book's autobiographical overture and moral frame. It presents Tobit as a man of Jerusalem-centered fidelity, almsgiving, purity in exile, and courageous burial mercy, so that the trials to come are read not as the collapse of an indifferent life but as the testing of a conspicuously righteous one. PDF
- 2 Tobit 2 Β′ Tobit 2 is the book's first great reversal chapter. A Pentecost meal in a restored household is immediately overtaken by burial piety, prophetic mourning, bodily affliction, and finally by the bitter domestic strain created when Anna must carry the household through Tobit's blindness. PDF
- 3 Tobit 3 Γ′ Tobit 3 is the book's great paired-lament chapter. Tobit and Sarah, far apart and unknown to each other, reach the same threshold of exhausted prayer on the same day, and the chapter reveals that their separate cries are already being drawn into one providential answer through Raphael. PDF
- 4 Tobit 4 Δ′ Tobit 4 is the book's great paternal instruction chapter. It turns Tobit's expectation of death into an ethical inheritance for Tobias, weaving together burial duty, honor for parents, almsgiving, chastity, kin-marriage, economic justice, wise counsel, sobriety, prayer, and the fear of God. PDF
- 5 Tobit 5 Ε′ Tobit 5 launches the book's central journey. What looks like a practical search for a courier becomes the providential moment in which Tobias is placed under Raphael's hidden guidance, even as Tobit and Anna experience the departure in deeply human terms of caution, hope, and grief. PDF
- 6 Tobit 6 Ϛ′ Tobit 6 is the chapter of hidden provision and redirected courage. What begins as a travel danger at the Tigris becomes the source of the fish organs that will later secure Sarah's deliverance and Tobit's healing, while Raphael simultaneously turns Tobias's fear toward lawful marriage, prayer, and hope. PDF
- 7 Tobit 7 Ζ′ Tobit 7 is the marriage-threshold chapter of the book. Kinship recognition, feast hospitality, legal negotiation, ominous warning, written contract, and maternal consolation all gather into one scene so that Tobias's union with Sarah is presented as both lawful and hard-won, not effortless. PDF
- 8 Tobit 8 Η′ Tobit 8 is the decisive reversal-of-the-wedding-night chapter. What had repeatedly meant death for Sarah's prior husbands becomes, through obedient ritual action, prayer, and divine mercy, a night of safety that opens into praise, a filled-in grave, and an extended marriage feast. PDF
- 9 Tobit 9 Θ′ Tobit 9 is the book's compact errand-of-restoration chapter. What looks like a practical side mission turns out to be another sign that the journey is moving under providential order: the marriage remains secure, Tobit's waiting at home is remembered, and the long-deposited money is gathered back into the household's impending healing. PDF
- 10 Tobit 10 Ι′ Tobit 10 is the chapter of divided households. In one place parents waste away under silence and delay; in another a wedding household must decide when joy can yield to departure. The result is a carefully balanced scene in which grief, insistence, dowry, blessing, and thanksgiving all work together to move Tobias and Sarah from marriage feast toward restored family life. PDF
- 11 Tobit 11 ΙΑ′ Tobit 11 is the homecoming and healing chapter. What earlier chapters stored up in sign, waiting, fish, prayer, and anxious delay now bursts into fulfillment: the son returns, the mother sees first, the father's blindness falls away, and the house becomes a place where mercy is confessed before both family and city. PDF
- 12 Tobit 12 ΙΒ′ Tobit 12 is the unveiling chapter. The family tries to settle accounts with the faithful companion, but the scene opens into something much larger: thanksgiving displaces payment, almsgiving is interpreted as life-giving righteousness, and Raphael reveals that the entire journey has unfolded under angelic mediation before God. PDF
- 13 Tobit 13 ΙΓ′ Tobit 13 turns private healing into national hope. The restored father sings not merely about his own mercy but about the God who wounds and heals Israel, gathers the scattered, and will yet glorify Jerusalem so fully that the nations come bearing gifts and every street becomes praise. PDF
- 14 Tobit 14 ΙΔ′ Tobit 14 is the book's testament-and-epilogue chapter. The healed elder closes his praise, gathers his descendants, interprets the fate of Nineveh and Jerusalem through prophecy, urges law and mercy one last time, and then dies in honor while the family line continues in Media under the vindication of everything he foresaw. PDF