Tobit 9

ASV Byzantine Text 23 include this book

1 And Tobias called Raphael, and said unto him,

2 Brother Azarias, take with thee a servant, and two camels, and go to Rages of Media to Gabael, and receive the money for me, and bring him to the wedding feast:

3 because Raguel hath sworn that I shall not depart;

4 and my father counteth the days; and if I tarry long, he will be sorely grieved.

5 And Raphael went on his way, and lodged with Gabael, and gave him the handwriting: but he brought forth the bags with their seals, and gave them to him.

6 And they rose up early in the morning together, and came to the wedding feast: and Tobias blessed his wife.

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No place is named in this book. Shown instead is where it is thought to have been written.

Where this was written

Babylon disputed Set among the eastern diaspora; composed in Aramaic or Hebrew, place uncertain.

When this was written

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 225 BC–175 BC Anonymous
Aramaic and Hebrew copies among the Dead Sea Scrolls fix it before the Maccabean period.

Elsewhere in the world

Events overlapping the period this book is dated to (225 BC–175 BC).

1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
322 BC–185 BC The Mauryan empire India
The first empire to unite most of the Indian subcontinent.
287 BC–212 BC Archimedes of Syracuse Greece
Mathematician and engineer, killed when Rome took Syracuse.
280 BC–130 BC Hebrew scriptures translated into Greek Egypt
The Septuagint was produced in Alexandria, making the Hebrew scriptures readable across the Greek-speaking world.
264 BC–146 BC Punic wars Rome
Rome defeated Carthage in three wars, becoming the dominant western Mediterranean power.
221 BC–206 BC Qin unification of China China
China was unified under its first emperor; writing, weights and measures were standardised.
221 BC–206 BC The Great Wall begun China
Existing walls were joined into a single frontier under the first emperor.

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