Day 193: The Book of Tobit (2025)

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🗓️ 12 July 2025

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Summary

Fr. Mike focuses on the book of Tobit today and explains why this beautiful book is missing from non-Catholic Bibles. He dives into the history behind the arrangement of the Bible and why the Catholic Bible includes 73 books. Today's readings are Isaiah 3-4, Tobit 3-4, and Proverbs 9:13-18.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Bible in a year podcast, where we
0:07.7	encounter God's voice and live life through the lens of scripture.
0:10.6	The Bible in a year podcast is brought to you by Ascension.
0:13.2	Using the great adventure Bible timeline, we'll read all the way from Genesis to Revelation,
0:17.1	discovering how the story of salvation unfolds and how we fit into that story today.
0:20.2	It is day 193, and we are reading today from Isaiah chapter 3 and 4, also Tobit
0:25.2	chapter 3 and 4 in Proverbs chapter 9 verses 13 through 18.
0:28.5	As always, the Bible translation that I am reading from is the revised standard version,
0:31.9	second Catholic edition.
0:33.0	And I'm using the Great Adventure Bible from Ascension.
0:34.9	If you want to download your own Bible in a year reading plan, you can visit ascensionpress.com slash Bible in a year. You also can subscribe
0:40.6	to this podcast by clicking on subscribe and then you get daily episodes every single day that we
0:45.2	put out a podcast. As I said yesterday, today, we're going to talk a little bit about. So where did
0:50.7	this book of Tobit come from? Because I hear there's a rumor out there that you Catholics have maybe, I don't know, 73 books in your Bible, whereas non-Catholics have 66 books in their Bible.
1:00.6	And so what's the story behind that?
1:01.9	I will do my best to recount that tale as best I can today.
1:06.5	That's for today.
1:07.5	So but until then, well, here it is.
1:10.0	This is the day.
1:10.7	Dave 193.
1:11.9	We're reading Isaiah chapter 3 and 4, Tobit chapter 3 and 4, Proverbs 9, verses 13 through 18.
1:22.6	The book of the prophet Isaiah chapter 3, the Lord's judgment.
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