Here is a good point to open a new paragraph (as Good News Translation and Contemporary English Version do); Tobit talks again about the money left with Gabael. The connector And now may be rendered simply as “now.”
For my son see the note at 4.3-4.
I left ten talents of silver in trust …: See the note on 1.14, and compare 4.1.
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.

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