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The text below comes from the first half of Tobit, Chapter 2 (with some omissions). This chapter contains Thobi's account of the most devastating experience in his life which takes place one year during the festival of Pentecost. This festival, called Shavuot in Hebrew, the "Festival of the Seven Weeks," takes place 50 days after Passover. |
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| Et sub Asarhaddon rege descendi in domum meam, et reddita est mihi uxor mea, Anna, et filius meus, Thobias. |
Asarhaddon: Hebrew name (agrees with rege) Thobias: Hebrew name (agrees with filius) |
| In Pentecoste, die festo nostro, factum est mihi prandium bonum, et discubui, ut pranderem. |
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| Et apposita est mihi mensa, et vidi pulmentaria complura. |
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| Et dixi Thobiae, filio
meo: "Vade et, quemcumque pauperem inveneris ex fratribus nostris, qui sunt captivi in Nineve, qui in mente habet Dominum in toto corde suo, hunc adduc, et manducabit pariter mecum." |
Thobiae: Hebrew name (agrees with filio) qui sunt : relative pronoun, agreeing with fratribus in gender and number qui...habet: relative pronoun, agreeing with quemcumque in gender and number |
| Et abiit Thobias quaerere aliquem pauperem ex fratribus nostris et, reversus, dixit mihi: "Pater!" |
Thobias: Hebrew name (nominative) quaerere: infinitive to express purpose reverses dixit : participle plus verb (he came back and said...) |
| Et ego dixi illi: "Ecce ego, fili." |
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| Et respondens ait: "Ecce unus ex natione nostra occisus est et proiectus est in foro et nunc ibidem laqueo suffocatus est." |
respondens ait: participle plus verb (he replied and said...) |
| Et, exsiliens, reliqui prandium, antequam ex illo gustarem, et sustuli eum de platea in unam domum, donec sol caderet et illum sepelirem. |
exsiliens reliqui: participle plus verb (I jumped up and left...) gustarem: subjunctive with expression of time (antequam) caderet...sepelirem: subjunctives with expression of time (donec) |
| Et, reversus, lavi et manducavi panem meum cum luctu. |
reversus lavi: participle plus verb (I came back and washed...) |
| Et rememoratus sum sermonis prophetae Amos, quem locutus est in Bethel, dicens: |
Amos: Hebrew name (agrees with prophetae) quem: relative pronoun, agreeing with sermonis in gender and number Bethel: Hebrew name (ablative) |
| "Convertentur omnes dies festi vestri in luctum, et omnia cantica vestra in lamentationem." Et lacrimatus sum. |
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| Et, postquam sol occidit, abii et fodiens sepelivi illum. |
fodiens sepelivi: participle plus verb (I dug a hole and buried...) |
| Et proximi mei deridebant me, dicentes: |
deridebant...dicentes: participle plus verb (they laughed... and said...) |
| "Non timet adhuc hic homo. |
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| Iam enim inquisitus est huius rei causa, ut occideretur, et fugit et ecce iterum sepelit mortuos."  |
enim: postpositive occideretur: subjunctive with ut |
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