And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale
away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the
daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to
bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by
right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and
entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came
down from her upper chamber.
Tob 4:1
In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed
to Gabael in Rages of Media,
Tob 4:2
And said with himself, I have wished for death; wherefore do
I not call for my son Tobias that I may signify to him of the
money before I die?
Tob 4:3
And when he had called him, he said, My son, when I am dead,
bury me; and despise not thy mother, but honour her all the days
of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and grieve her
not.
Tob 4:4
Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when
thou wast in her womb: and when she is dead, bury her by me in
one grave.
Tob 4:5
My son, be mindful of the Lord our God all thy days, and let
not thy will be set to sin, or to transgress his commandments:
do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of
unrighteousness.
Tob 4:6
For if thou deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed
to thee, and to all them that live justly.
Tob 4:7
Give alms of thy substance; and when thou givest alms, let
not thine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor,
and the face of God shall not be turned away from thee.
Tob 4:8
If thou hast abundance give alms accordingly: if thou have
but a little, be not afraid to give according to that little:
Tob 4:9
For thou layest up a good treasure for thyself against the
day of necessity.
Tob 4:10
Because that alms do deliver from death, and suffereth not to
come into darkness.
Tob 4:11
For alms is a good gift unto all that give it in the sight of
the most High.
Tob 4:12
Beware of all whoredom, my son, and chiefly take a wife of
the seed of thy fathers, and take not a strange woman to wife,
which is not of thy father's tribe: for we are the children of
the prophets, Noe, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: remember, my son,
that our fathers from the beginning, even that they all married
wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children,
and their seed shall inherit the land.
Tob 4:13
Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in
thy heart thy brethren, the sons a
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