ong whom we
are dispersed.

Tob 3:5
And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me
according to my sins and my fathers': because we have not kept
thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.

Tob 3:6
Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and
command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved,
and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than
to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much
sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of
this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy
face away from me.

Tob 3:7
It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of
Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her
father's maids;

Tob 3:8
Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom
Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with
her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled
thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither
wast thou named after any of them.

Tob 3:9
Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy
ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or
daughter.

Tob 3:10
Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that
she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the
only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a
reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow
unto the grave.

Tob 3:11
Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art
thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed
and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for
ever.

Tob 3:12
And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee,

Tob 3:13
And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more
the reproach.

Tob 3:14
Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,

Tob 3:15
And that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father,
in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my
father, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any
near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep
myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why
should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die,
command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that
I hear no more reproach.

Tob 3:16
So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of
the great God.

Tob 3:17