During the time of Shalmaneser, I was charitable towards my brothers. I fed the hungry and clothed the naked. The dead, who were thrown behind or over the city wall, I later buried in secret – even those king Shalmaneser had executed.
I, Tobit, have lived my whole life justly. I gave the first fruits of my labor to the priests in the temple, the tithe from my fields for the altar, fruits to the Levites. After the death of my grandmother Deborah, my father died and left me an orphan. Then I married Hannah. Our son is named Tobias.

The apostates sacrificed the bull to Baal.