# Tobit 5:17

**Apocrypha.** Not part of the 66-book Protestant canon. Catholic and Orthodox churches accept these books as deuterocanonical.

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- Edition: kjv-apocrypha
- Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/tobit/5/17
- Book: [Tobit](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/tobit)
- Chapter: [Tobit 5](https://apologetics.wiki/apocrypha/tobit/5)
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But Anna his mother wept, and said to Tobit, Why hast thou sent away our son? is he not the staff of our hand, in going in and out before us?