Given by: the narrator, recounting Tobit's example. Given to: the reader, as a model of urgent mercy; note this is narrated as Tobit's deed, not a spoken command.

Under a pagan empire that left the executed exposed, burial of one's slain countrymen was a costly and dangerous act of covenant faithfulness — a chief expression of righteousness where Temple worship was impossible.

And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the children of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up from his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to the body:

When the dead lie unburied, interrupt your own comfort at once and attend to them without delay.

Tobit 2:3

Your Spirit

Loves God

Loves Neighbor

Your Body

Moral Behaviour