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Tobit 5 📜 📕 ↷
Tobias Hires Raphael as Guide
1 THEN Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, whatsoever thou hast commanded me.📜💬📚
2 But how I shall require this money, I can not tell, he knoweth not me, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? Yea neither the way which leadeth thither did I ever know.📜💬📚
3 Then his father answered him, & said: I have the bill of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him he will forthwith restore it.📜💬📚
4 But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, that may go with thee, being sure of his hire: that thou mayst receive it, whilst I yet live.📜💬📚
5 Then Tobias going forth, found a goodly young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk.📜💬📚
6 And not knowing that it was an Angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence have we thee, good young man?📜💬📚
7 But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way, that leadeth unto the country of the Medes?📜💬📚
8 To whom he answered: I know it: and all the ways thereof I have often walked, and I have tarried with Gabelus our brother, who abideth in Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the Mount Ecbatanis.📜💬📚
9 To whom Tobias said: Stay for me I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father.📜💬📚
10 Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Where upon his father marveling, requested that he would come in unto him.📜💬📚
11 Going in therefore he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.📜💬📚
12 And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, which sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven?📜💬📚
Raphael Predicts Father's Cure
13 To whom the young man said: Be of good cheer, it is very near that thou mayst be cured of God.📜💬📚
14 Tobias therefore said to him: Canst thou bring my son to Gabelus into Rages a city of the Medes? And when thou shalt return, I will pay thee thy hire.📜💬📚
15 And the Angel said to him: I will conduct him, and bring him to thee again.📜💬📚
16 To whom Tobias answered: I pray thee tell me, of what house, or what tribe art thou?📜💬📚
17 To whom Raphael the Angel said: Seekest thou the kindred of an hired servant, or an hired servant himself, that may go with thy son?📜💬📚
Raphael Claims He Is Azarias
18 But lest perhaps I make thee careful, I am Azarias the son of Ananias the great.📜💬📚
19 And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great kindred. But I pray thee be not angry that I would know thy kindred.📜💬📚
20 And the Angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee again safe.📜💬📚
21 And Tobias answering, said: Well may you walk, & God be in your journey, and his Angel accompany you.📜💬📚
22 Then all things being ready that were to be carried in the way, Tobias bid his father and his mother fare well, & they walked both together.📜💬📚
Mother Fears Tobias Is Gone
23 And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.📜💬📚
24 I would the money had never been, for the which thou hast sent him.📜💬📚
25 For our poverty sufficed us, that we might account this thing riches, that we saw our son.📜💬📚
Father Reassures Mother
26 And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son shall come thither save, and shall return safe to us, and thine eyes shall see him.📜💬📚
27 For I believe that the good Angel of God doth accompany him, & doth well dispose all things that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.📜💬📚
28 At this voice his mother left weeping, and held her peace.📜💬📚
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