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The text below comes from the first half of Tobit, Chapter 7 (with some omissions). In this chapter, you will meet Raguel, a relative of Thobi, and his wife, Edna. The Hebrew name "Edna" means the "Graceful One." Although Edna is not a famous Biblical name, in the extracanonical Book of Jubilees, Edna is the name of Abraham's mother (the name of his mother is not given in the canonical Hebrew Bible): "Terah took to himself a wife, and her name was Edna, the daughter of Abram, the daughter of his father's sister. And in the seventh year of this week she bare him a son, and he called his name Abram, by the name of the father of his mother; for he had died before his daughter had conceived a son." |
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| Et cum venisset in Ecbatana, dixit illi: "Azaria frater, duc me ad Raguel, fratrem nostrum, viam rectam." |
venisset: subjunctive with cum Azaria: Hebrew name (agrees with frater) Raguel: Hebrew name (agrees with fratrem) viam rectam: like English "straightaway, immediately" |
| Et duxit eum ad domum Raguel, et invenerunt illum sedentem circa ostium atrii sui et salutaverunt illum priores. |
Raguel: Hebrew name (genitive) |
| Et ille dixit eis: "Bene valeatis, fratres, intrate salvi et sani." |
valeatis: subjunctive as imperative |
| Et induxit eos in domum suam, et dixit Ednae, uxori suae: |
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| "Quam similis est hic iuvenis Thobi, fratri meo." |
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| Et interrogavit illos Edna et dixit eis: “Unde estis, fratres?" |
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| Et dixerunt illi: "Ex filiis Nephthali nos sumus, captivis in Nineve." |
Nephthali: Hebrew name (genitive) |
| Et dixit eis: "Nostis Thobin, fratrem nostrum?" |
Thobin: Hebrew name (agrees with fratrem) |
| Et dixerunt ei: "Novimus illum." |
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| Et dixit eis: "Fortis est?" |
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| Et dixerunt illi: "Fortis est et vivit." |
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| Et Thobias dixit: "Pater meus est." |
Thobias: Hebrew name (nominative) |
| Et exsilivit Raguel et osculatus est illum, lacrimans, et dixit: |
Raguel: Hebrew name (nominative) |
| "Benedictio tibi sit, fili, boni et optimi patris fili. |
rediissent: jussive subjunctive |
| O infelicitas malorum, quia excaecatus est vir iustus et faciens eleemosynas!" |
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| Et incubuit, lacrimans, super collum Thobiae, filii fratris sui. |
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| Et Edna, uxor eius, lacrimata est super eum, et Sara, filia eorum, lacrimata est et ipsa. |
et ipsa : adverbial use of et (she also) |
| Et occidit arietem ex ovibus et suscepit illos libenter.  |
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