dent and
manifest sign unto all of the help of the Lord.

2 Mac 15:36
And they ordained all with a common decree in no case to let
that day pass without solemnity, but to celebrate the thirtieth
day of the twelfth month, which in the Syrian tongue is called
Adar, the day before Mardocheus' day.

2 Mac 15:37
Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the
Hebrews had the city in their power. And here will I make an
end.

2 Mac 15:38
And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is
that which I desired: but if slenderly and meanly, it is that
which I could attain unto.

2 Mac 15:39
For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone; and as
wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste:
even so speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that
read the story. And here shall be an end.

The Book of Tobit

Tob 1:1
The book of the words of Tobit, son of Tobiel, the son of
Ananiel, the son of Aduel, the son of Gabael, of the seed of
Asael, of the tribe of Nephthali;

Tob 1:2
Who in the time of Enemessar king of the Assyrians was led
captive out of Thisbe, which is at the right hand of that city,
which is called properly Nephthali in Galilee above Aser.

Tob 1:3
I Tobit have walked all the days of my life in the ways of
truth and justice, and I did many almsdeeds to my brethren, and
my nation, who came with me to Nineve, into the land of the
Assyrians.

Tob 1:4
And when I was in mine own country, in the land of Israel
being but young, all the tribe of Nephthali my father fell from
the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes
of Israel, that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the
temple of the habitation of the most High was consecrated and
built for all ages.

Tob 1:5
Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of
my father Nephthali, sacrificed unto the heifer Baal.

Tob 1:6
But I alone went often to Jerusalem at the feasts, as it was
ordained unto all the people of Israel by an everlasting decree,
having the firstfruits and tenths of increase, with that which
was first shorn; and them gave I at the altar to the priests the
children of Aaron.

Tob 1:7
The first tenth part of all increase I gave to the sons of
Aaron, who ministered at Jerusalem: another tenth part I sold
away, and went, and spent it every year at Jerusalem:

Tob 1:8
And the third I gave unto them to whom it was meet, as Debora
my father's mo