1. When I returned home I was reunited with my wife Anna and my son Tobias. At the Harvest Festival, which is also called the Festival of Weeks, I sat down to a delicious meal.
2. When I saw how much food there was on the table, I said to Tobias, “My son, go out and find some fellow-Jew who is living in poverty here in exile, someone who takes God's commands seriously. Bring him back with you, so that he can share this festival meal with us. I won't start eating until you come back.”
3. So Tobias went out to look for such a person. But he quickly returned, shouting, “Father! Father!”“Yes, what is it?” I asked.“One of our people has just been murdered! Someone strangled him and threw his body into the market-place.”