Then they stood up: Good News Translation “Tobit and Tobias stood up” helpfully reminds the reader that Tobit and Tobias are the two on the scene here. They stand up because they have been lying prostrate on the ground since verse 16.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on Tobit. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2001. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.