The interpretation timeline

Tob 4:13

How this passage has been read — the sources, oldest to newest.

From the early Church Fathers to now.

Tob 4:13 · Douay-Rheims
“Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and beside thy wife never endure to know a crime.”
Post-Reformation c. 1650 – 1900
1849
A.D.
1774–1849
“Crime, or any commerce with another. (Haydock) — Greek and Hebrew add, conformable to the law, (Exodus xxxiv. 16.) “And take not a strange woman, who may not be of thy father’s tribe, as we are the sons of the prophets, Noe, &c. ….All these married from among their brethren, and were blessed in their children, and their seed shall inherit the land.” (Haydock)”
Source
Modern · 1953 →

The in-app commentary runs from the Fathers to the early-modern record, then stops — that's where the public-domain sources end, not where the reading does. For the modern reading, follow the sources directly.