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Tobit","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Category: Religion/Spirituality"],"text":"This eBook was produced by David Widger\nfrom etext #1581 prepared by Dennis McCarthy, Atlanta, Georgia\nand Tad Book, student, Pontifical North American College, Rome.\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE HOLY BIBLE\n\n\n\n\nTranslated from the Latin Vulgate\n\n\nDiligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,\nand Other Editions in Divers Languages\n\n\nTHE OLD TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Douay\nA.D. 1609 & 1610\n\nand\n\nTHE NEW TESTAMENT\nFirst Published by the English College at Rheims\nA.D. 1582\n\n\nWith Annotations\n\n\nThe Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with\nthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner\nA.D. 1749-1752\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE BOOK OF TOBIAS\n\nThis Book takes its name from the holy man Tobias, whose wonderful\nvirtues are herein recorded. It contains most excellent documents of\ngreat piety, extraordinary patience, and of a perfect resignation to the\nwill of God. His humble prayer was heard, and the angel Raphael was sent\nto relieve him: he is thankful and praises the Lord, calling on the\nchildren of Israel to do the same. Having lived to the age of one\nhundred and two years, he exhorts his son and grandsons to piety,\nforetells the destruction of Ninive and the rebuilding of Jerusalem: he\ndies happily.\n\n\nTobias Chapter 1\n\nTobias's early piety: his works of mercy, particularly in burying the\ndead.\n\n1:1. Tobias of the tribe and city of Nephtali, (which is in the upper\nparts of Galilee above Naasson, beyond the way that leadeth to the west,\nhaving on the right hand the city of Sephet,)\n\n1:2. When he was made captive in the days of Salmanasar king of the\nAssyrians, even in his captivity, forsook not the way of truth,\n\n1:3. But every day gave all he could get to his brethren his fellow\ncaptives, that were of his kindred.\n\n1:4. And when he was younger than any of the tribe of Nephtali, yet did\nhe no childish thing in his work.\n\n1:5. Moreover when all went to the golden calves which Jeroboam king of\nIsrael had made, he alone fled the company of all,\n\n1:6. And went to Jerusalem to the temple of the Lord, and there adored\nthe Lord God of Israel, offering faithfully all his firstfruits, and his\ntithes,\n\n1:7. So that in the third year he gave all his tithes to the proselytes,\nand strangers.\n\n1:8. These and such like things did he observe when but a boy according\nto the law of God.\n\n1:9. But when he was a man, he took to wife Anna of his own tribe, and\nhad a son by her, whom he called after his own name,\n\n1:10. And from his infancy he taught him to fear God, and to abstain\nfrom all sin.\n\n1:11. And when by the captivity he with his wife and his son and all his\ntribe was come to the city of Ninive,\n\n1:12. (When all ate of the meats of the Gentiles) he kept his soul and\nnever was defiled with their meats.\n\n1:13. And because he was mindful of the Lord with all his heart, God\ngave him favour in the sight of Salmanasar the king.\n\n1:14. And he gave him leave to go whithersoever he would, with liberty\nto do whatever he had a mind.\n\n1:15. He therefore went to all that were in captivity, and gave them\nwholesome admonitions.\n\n1:16. And when he was come to Rages a city of the Medes, and had ten\ntalents of silver of that with which he had been honoured by the king:\n\n1:17. And when amongst a great multitude of his kindred, he saw Gabelus\nin want, who was one of his tribe, taking a note of his hand he gave him\nthe aforesaid sum of money.\n\n1:18. But after a long time, Salmanasar the king being dead, when\nSennacherib his son, who reigned in his place, had a hatred for the\nchildren of Israel:\n\n1:19. Tobias daily went among all his kindred and comforted them, and\ndistributed to every one as he was able, out of his goods:\n\n1:20. He fed the hungry, and gave clothes to the naked, and was careful\nto bury the dead, and they that were slain.\n\n1:21. And when king Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by\nreason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy,\nand being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried their\nbodies.\n\n1:22. But when it was told the king, he commanded him to be slain, and\ntook away all his substance.\n\n1:23. But Tobias fleeing naked away with his son and with his wife, lay\nconcealed, for many loved him.\n\n1:24. But after forty-five days, the king was killed by his own sons.\n\n1:25. And Tobias returned to his house, and all his substance was\nrestored to him.\n\nTobias Chapter 2\n\nTobias leaveth his dinner to bury the dead: he loseth his sight by God's\npermission, for manifestation of his patience.\n\n2:1. But after this, when there was a festival of the Lord, and a good\ndinner was prepared in Tobias's house,\n\n2:2. He said to his son: Go, and bring some of our tribe that fear God,\nto feast with us.\n\n2:3. And when he had gone, returning he told him, that one of the\nchildren of Israel lay slain in the street. And he forthwith leaped up\nfrom his place at the table, and left his dinner, and came fasting to\nthe body.\n\n2:4. And taking it up carried it privately to his house, that after the\nsun was down, he might bury him cautiously.\n\n2:5. And when he had hid the body, he ate bread with mourning and fear,\n\n2:6. Remembering the word which the Lord spoke by Amos the prophet: Your\nfestival days shall be turned into lamentation and mourning.\n\n2:7. So when the sun was down, he went and buried him.\n\n2:8. Now all his neighbours blamed him, saying: once already commandment\nwas given for thee to be slain because of this matter, and thou didst\nscarce escape the sentence of death, and dost thou again bury the dead?\n\n2:9. But Tobias fearing God more than the king, carried off the bodies\nof them that were slain, and hid them in his house, and at midnight\nburied them.\n\n2:10. Now it happened one day that being wearied with burying, he came\nto his house, and cast himself down by the wall and slept,\n\n2:11. And as he was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon\nhis eyes, and he was made blind.\n\n2:12. Now this trial the Lord therefore permitted to happen to him, that\nan example might be given to posterity of his patience, as also of holy\nJob.\n\n2:13. For whereas he had always feared God from his infancy, and kept\nhis commandments, he repined not against God because the evil of\nblindness had befallen him,\n\n2:14. But continued immoveable in the fear of God, giving thanks to God\nall the days of his life.\n\n2:15. For as the kings insulted over holy Job: so his relations and\nkinsmen mocked at his life, saying:\n\nKings... So Job's three friends are here called, because they were\nprinces in their respective territories.\n\n2:16. Where is thy hope, for which thou gavest alms, and buriedst the\ndead?\n\n2:17. But Tobias rebuked them, saying: Speak not so:\n\n2:18. For we are the children of saints, and look for that life which\nGod will give to those that never change their faith from him.\n\n2:19. Now Anna his wife went daily to weaving work, and she brought home\nwhat she could get for their living by the labour of her hands.\n\n2:20. Whereby it came to pass, that she received a young kid, and\nbrought it home:\n\n2:21. And when her husband heard it bleating, he said: Take heed, lest\nperhaps it be stolen: restore ye it to its owners, for it is not lawful\nfor us either to eat or to touch any thing that cometh by theft.\n\n2:22. At these words his wife being angry answered: It is evident the\nhope is come to nothing, and thy alms now appear.\n\n2:23. And with these and other, such like words she upbraided him.\n\nTobias Chapter 3\n\nThe prayer of Tobias, and of Sara, in their several afflictions, are\nheard by God, and the angel Raphael is sent to relieve them.\n\n3:1. Then Tobias sighed, and began to pray with tears,\n\n3:2. Saying, Thou art just, O Lord, and all thy judgments are just, and\nall thy ways mercy, and truth, and judgment:\n\n3:3. And now, O Lord, think of me, and take not revenge of my sins,\nneither remember my offences, nor those of my parents.\n\n3:4. For we have not obeyed thy commandments, therefore are we delivered\nto spoil and to captivity, and death, and are made a fable, and a\nreproach to all nations, amongst which thou hast scattered us.\n\n3:5. And now, O Lord, great are thy judgments, because we have not done\naccording to thy precepts, and have not walked sincerely before thee.\n\n3:6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to thy will, and command my\nspirit to be received in peace: for it is better for me to die, than to\nlive.\n\n3:7. Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in\nRages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's\nservant maids,\n\nRages... In the Greek it is Ecbatana, which was also called Rages. For\nthere were two cities in Media of the name of Rages. Raguel dwelt in one\nof them, and Gabelus in the other.\n\n3:8. Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named\nAsmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.\n\n3:9. So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her,\nsaying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou\nmurderer of thy husbands.\n\n3:10. Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven\nhusbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house:\nand for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:\n\n3:11. But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would\ndeliver her from this reproach.\n\n3:12. And it came to pass on the third day when she was making an end of\nher prayer, blessing the Lord,\n\n3:13. She said: Blessed is thy name, O God of our fathers, who when thou\nhast been angry, wilt shew mercy, and in the time of tribulation\nforgivest the sins of them that call upon thee.\n\n3:14. To thee, O Lord, I turn my face, to thee I direct my eyes.\n\n3:15. I beg, O Lord, that thou loose me from the bond of this reproach,\nor else take me away from the earth.\n\n3:16. Thou knowest, O Lord, that I never coveted a husband, and have\nkept my soul clean from all lust.\n\n3:17. Never have I joined myself with them that play: neither have I\nmade myself partaker with them that walk in lightness.\n\n3:18. But a husband I consented to take, with thy fear, not with my\nlust.\n\n3:19. And either I was unworthy of them, or they perhaps were not worthy\nof me: because perhaps thou hast kept me for another man,\n\n3:20. For thy counsel is not in man's power.\n\n3:21. But this every one is sure of that worshippeth thee, that his\nlife, if it be under trial, shall be crowned and if it be under\ntribulation, it shall be delivered: and if it be under correction, it\nshall be allowed to come to thy mercy.\n\n3:22. For thou art not delighted in our being lost, because after a\nstorm thou makest a calm, and after tears and weeping thou pourest in\njoyfulness.\n\n3:23. Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever,\n\n3:24. At that time the prayers of them both were heard in the sight of\nthe glory of the most high God:\n\n3:25. And the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael was sent to heal them\nboth, whose prayers at one time were rehearsed in the sight of the Lord.\n\nTobias Chapter 4\n\nTobias thinking he shall die, giveth his son godly admonitions: and\ntelleth him of money he had lent to a friend.\n\n4:1. Therefore when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard that he\nmight die, he called to him Tobias his son,\n\n4:2. And said to him: Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and lay them\nas a foundation in thy heart.\n\n4:3. When God shall take my soul, thou shalt bury my body: and thou\nshalt honour thy mother all the days of her life:\n\n4:4. For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered for\nthee in her womb.\n\n4:5. And when she also shall have ended the time of her life, bury her\nby me.\n\n4:6. And all the days of thy life have God in thy mind: and take heed\nthou never consent to sin, nor transgress the commandments of the Lord\nour God.\n\n4:7. Give alms out of thy substance, and turn not away thy face from any\npoor person: for so it shall come to pass that the face of the Lord\nshall not be turned from thee.\n\n4:8. According to thy ability be merciful.\n\n4:9. If thou have much give abundantly: if thou have little, take care\neven so to bestow willingly a little.\n\n4:10. For thus thou storest up to thyself a good reward for the day of\nnecessity.\n\n4:11. For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer\nthe soul to go into darkness.\n\n4:12. Alms shall be a great confidence before the most high God, to all\nthem that give it.\n\n4:13. Take heed to keep thyself, my son, from all fornication, and\nbeside thy wife never endure to know a crime.\n\n4:14. Never suffer pride to reign in thy mind, or in thy words: for from\nit all perdition took its beginning.\n\n4:15. If any man hath done any work for thee, immediately pay him his\nhire, and let not the wages of thy hired servant stay with thee at all.\n\n4:16. See thou never do to another what thou wouldst hate to have done\nto thee by another.\n\n4:17. Eat thy bread with the hungry and the needy, and with thy garments\ncover the naked,\n\n4:18. Lay out thy bread, and thy wine upon the burial of a just man, and\ndo not eat and drink thereof with the wicked.\n\n4:19. Seek counsel always of a wise man.\n\n4:20. Bless God at all times: and desire of him to direct thy ways, and\nthat all thy counsels may abide in him.\n\n4:21. I tell thee also, my son, that I lent ten talents of silver, while\nthou wast yet a child, to Gabelus, in Rages a city of the Medes, and I\nhave a note of his hand with me:\n\n4:22. Now therefore inquire how thou mayst go to him, and receive of him\nthe foresaid sum of money, and restore to him the note of his hand.\n\n4:23. Fear not, my son: we lead indeed a poor life, but we shall have\nmany good things if we fear God, and depart from all sin, and do that\nwhich is good.\n\nTobias Chapter 5\n\nYoung Tobias seeking a guide for his journey, the angel Raphael, in\nshape of a man, undertaketh this office.\n\n5:1. Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things,\nfather, which thou hast commanded me.\n\n5:2. But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me,\nand I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the\nway which leadeth thither.\n\n5:3. Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand\nwith me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.\n\n5:4. But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee\nfor his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.\n\n5:5. Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing\ngirded, and as it were ready to walk.\n\n5:6. And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and\nsaid: From whence art thou, good young man?\n\n5:7. But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him:\nKnowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?\n\n5:8. And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the\nways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at\nRages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.\n\n5:9. And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell\nthese same things to my father.\n\n5:10. Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon\nwhich his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto\nhim.\n\n5:11. So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.\n\n5:12. And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in\ndarkness and see not the light of heaven?\n\n5:13. And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from\nGod is at hand.\n\n5:14. And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at\nRages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee\nthy hire.\n\n5:15. And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring\nhim back to thee.\n\n5:16. And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or\nwhat tribe art thou?\n\n5:17. And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him\nthou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?\n\n5:18. But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the\ngreat Ananias.\n\nAzarias... The angel took the form of Azarias: and therefore might call\nhimself by the name of the man whom he personated. Azarias, in Hebrew,\nsignifies the help of God, and Ananias the grace of God.\n\n5:19. And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee\nbe not angry that I desired to know thy family.\n\n5:20. And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him\nto thee again safe.\n\n5:21. And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God\nbe with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.\n\n5:22. Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their\njourney, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set\nout both together.\n\n5:23. And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say:\nThou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.\n\n5:24. I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.\n\n5:25. For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as\nriches, that we saw our son.\n\n5:26. And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither\nsafe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.\n\n5:27. For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and\ndoth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall\nreturn to us with joy.\n\n5:28. At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.\n\nTobias Chapter 6\n\nBy the angel's advice young Tobias taketh hold on a fish that assaulteth\nhim. Reserveth the heart, the gall, and the liver for medicines. They\nlodge at the house of Raguel, whose daughter Sara, Tobias is to marry;\nshe had before been married to seven husbands, who were all slain by a\ndevil.\n\n6:1. And Tobias went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged\nthe first night by the river of Tigris.\n\n6:2. And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came\nup to devour him.\n\n6:3. And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud voice,\nsaying: Sir, he cometh upon me.\n\n6:4. And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and draw him to\nthee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and he\nbegan to pant before his feet.\n\n6:5. Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish, and\nlay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are\nnecessary for useful medicines.\n\n6:6. And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they\ntook it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might\nserve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.\n\n6:7. Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee,\nbrother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which\nthou hast bid me keep of the fish?\n\n6:8. And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece\nof its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of\ndevils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to\nthem.\n\nIts heart, etc. The liver (ver. 19)... God was pleased to give these\nthings a virtue against those proud spirits, to make them, who affected\nto be like the Most High, subject to such mean corporeal creatures as\ninstruments of his power.\n\n6:9. And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a\nwhite speck, and they shall be cured.\n\n6:10. And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we lodge?\n\n6:11. And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose name is Raguel, a\nnear kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara, but he\nhath no son nor any other daughter beside her.\n\n6:12. All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take her to wife.\n\n6:13. Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give her thee to\nwife.\n\n6:14. Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath been given to\nseven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a devil\nkilled them.\n\n6:15. Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen to me also: and\nwhereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down their old\nage with sorrow to hell.\n\nHell... That is, to the place where the souls of the good were kept\nbefore the coming of Christ.\n\n6:16. Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I will shew thee\nwho they are, over whom the devil can prevail.\n\n6:17. For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to shut out God\nfrom themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to their\nlust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the\ndevil hath power.\n\n6:18. But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the chamber, and for\nthree days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself to nothing\nelse but to prayers with her.\n\n6:19. And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the fire, and the\ndevil shall be driven away.\n\n6:20. But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the society of\nthe holy Patriarchs.\n\n6:21. And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing that sound\nchildren may be born of you.\n\n6:22. And when the third night is past, thou shalt take the virgin with\nthe fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than for lust,\nthat in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.\n\nTobias Chapter 7\n\nThey are kindly entertained by Raguel. Tobias demandeth Sara to wife.\n\n7:1. And they went in to Raguel, and Raguel received them with joy.\n\n7:2. And Raguel looking upon Tobias, said to Anna his wife: How like is\nthis young man to my cousin?\n\n7:3. And when he had spoken these words, he said: Whence are ye young\nmen our brethren?\n\n7:4. But they said: We are of the tribe of Nephtali, of the captivity of\nNinive.\n\n7:5. And Raguel said to them: Do you know Tobias my brother? And they\nsaid: We know him.\n\n7:6. And when he was speaking many good things of him, the angel said to\nRaguel: Tobias concerning whom thou inquirest is this young man's\nfather.\n\n7:7. And Raguel went to him, and kissed him with tears and weeping upon\nhis neck, said: A blessing be upon thee, my son, because thou art the\nson of a good and most virtuous man.\n\n7:8. And Anna his wife, and Sara their daughter wept.\n\n7:9. And after they had spoken, Raguel commanded a sheep to be killed,\nand a feast to be prepared. And when he desired them to sit down to\ndinner,\n\n7:10. Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou\nfirst grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter.\n\n7:11. Now when Raguel heard this he was afraid, knowing what had\nhappened to those seven husbands, that went in unto her: and he began to\nfear lest it might happen to him also in like manner: and as he was in\nsuspense, and gave no answer to his petition,\n\n7:12. The angel said to him: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for\nto him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife: therefore\nanother could not have her.\n\n7:13. Then Raguel said: I doubt not but God hath regarded my prayers and\ntears in his sight.\n\n7:14. And I believe he hath therefore made you come to me, that this\nmaid might be married to one of her own kindred, according to the law of\nMoses: and now doubt not but I will give her to thee.\n\n7:15. And taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the\nright hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac,\nand the God of Jacob be with you, and may he join you together, and\nfulfil his blessing in you.\n\n7:16. And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage.\n\n7:17. And afterwards they made merry, blessing God.\n\n7:18. And Raguel called to him Anna his wife, and bade her to prepare\nanother chamber.\n\n7:19. And she brought Sara her daughter in thither, and she wept.\n\n7:20. And she said to her: Be of good cheer, my daughter: the Lord of\nheaven give thee joy for the trouble thou hast undergone.\n\nTobias Chapter 8\n\nTobias burneth part of the fish's liver, and Raphael bindeth the devil.\nTobias and Sara pray.\n\n8:1. And after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her.\n\n8:2. And Tobias remembering the angel's word, took out of his bag part\nof the liver, and laid it upon burning coals.\n\n8:3. Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert\nof upper Egypt.\n\n8:4. Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and\nlet us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for\nthese three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is\nover, we will be in our own wedlock.\n\n8:5. For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined\ntogether like heathens that know not God.\n\n8:6. So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health\nmight be given them,\n\n8:7. And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the\nearth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy\ncreatures that are in them, bless thee.\n\n8:8. Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for\na helper.\n\n8:9. And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my\nsister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name\nmay be blessed for ever and ever.\n\n8:10. Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and\nlet us grow old both together in health.\n\n8:11. And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his\nservants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a\ngrave.\n\n8:12. For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like\nmanner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.\n\n8:13. And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife,\nand said to her:\n\n8:14. Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be dead, that I may\nbury him before it be day.\n\n8:15. So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into the chamber,\nand found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.\n\n8:16. And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel and Anna his\nwife blessed the Lord,\n\n8:17. And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because it hath not\nhappened as we suspected.\n\n8:18. For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut out from us the\nenemy that persecuted us.\n\n8:19. And thou hast taken pity upon two only children. Make them, O\nLord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice of thy\npraise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone\nart God in all the earth.\n\n8:20. And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to fill up the pit\nthey had made, before it was day.\n\n8:21. And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and prepare all\nkind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey.\n\n8:22. He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be killed, and a\nbanquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his friends,\n\n8:23. And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with him two weeks.\n\n8:24. And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave one half to\nTobias, and made a writing, that the half that remained should after\ntheir decease come also to Tobias.\n\nTobias Chapter 9\n\nThe angel Raphael goeth to Gabelus, receiveth the money, and bringeth\nhim to the marriage.\n\n9:1. Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and\nsaid to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:\n\n9:2. If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a\nworthy return for thy care.\n\n9:3. However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants, and\nto go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him\nhis note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come\nto my wedding.\n\n9:4. For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay\none day more, his soul will be afflicted.\n\n9:5. And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I\ncannot despise.\n\n9:6. Then Raphael took four of Raguel's servants, and two camels, and\nwent to Rages the city of the Medes: and finding Gabelus, gave him his\nnote of hand, and received of him all the money.\n\n9:7. And he told him concerning Tobias the son of Tobias, all that had\nbeen done: and made him come with him to the wedding.\n\n9:8. And when he was come into Raguel's house he found Tobias sitting at\nthe table: and he leaped up, and they kissed each other: and Gabelus\nwept, and blessed God,\n\n9:9. And said: The God of Israel bless thee, because thou art the son of\na very good and just man, and that feareth God, and doth almsdeeds:\n\n9:10. And may a blessing come upon thy wife and upon your parents.\n\n9:11. And may you see your children, and your children's children, unto\nthe third and fourth generation: and may your seed be blessed by the God\nof Israel, who reigneth for ever and ever.\n\n9:12. And when all had said, Amen, they went to the feast: but the\nmarriage feast they celebrated also with the fear of the Lord.\n\nTobias Chapter 10\n\nThe parents lament the long absence of their son Tobias. He sets out to\nreturn.\n\n10:1. But as Tobias made longer stay upon occasion of the marriage,\nTobias his father was solicitous, saying: Why thinkest thou doth my son\ntarry, or why is he detained there?\n\n10:2. Is Gabelus dead, thinkest thou, and no man will pay him the money?\n\n10:3. And he began to be exceeding sad, both he and Anna his wife with\nhim: and they began both to weep together, because their son did not\nreturn to them on the day appointed.\n\n10:4. But his mother wept and was quite disconsolate, and said: Woe, woe\nis me, my son; why did we send thee to go to a strange country, the\nlight of our eyes, the staff of our old age, the comfort of our life,\nthe hope of our posterity?\n\n10:5. We having all things together in thee alone, ought not to have let\nthee go from us.\n\n10:6. And Tobias said to her: Hold thy peace, and be not troubled, our\nson is safe: that man with whom we sent him is very trusty.\n\n10:7. But she could by no means be comforted, but daily running out\nlooked round about, and went into all the ways by which there seemed any\nhope he might return, that she might if possible see him coming afar\noff.\n\n10:8. But Raguel said to his son in law: Stay here, and I will send a\nmessenger to Tobias thy father, that thou art in health.\n\n10:9. And Tobias said to him: I know that my father and mother now count\nthe days, and their spirit is grievously afflicted within them.\n\n10:10. And when Raguel had pressed Tobias with many words, and he by no\nmeans would hearken to him, he delivered Sara unto him, and half of all\nhis substance in menservants, and womenservants, in cattle, in camels,\nand in kine, and in much money, and sent him away safe and joyful from\nhim,\n\n10:11. Saying: The holy angel of the Lord be with you in your journey,\nand bring you through safe, and that you may find all things well about\nyour parents, and my eyes may see your children before I die.\n\n10:12. And the parents taking their daughter kissed her, and let her go:\n\n10:13. Admonishing her to honour her father and mother in law, to love\nher husband, to take care of the family, to govern the house, and to\nbehave herself irreprehensibly.\n\nTobias Chapter 11\n\nTobias anointeth his father's eyes with the fish's gall, and he\nrecovereth his sight.\n\n11:1. And as they were returning they came to Charan, which is in the\nmidway to Ninive, the eleventh day.\n\n11:2. And the angel said: Brother Tobias, thou knowest how thou didst\nleave thy father.\n\n11:3. If it please thee therefore, let us go before, and let the family\nfollow softly after us, together with thy wife, and with the beasts.\n\n11:4. And as this their going pleased him, Raphael said to Tobias: Take\nwith thee of the gall of the fish, for it will be necessary. So Tobias\ntook some of that gall and departed.\n\n11:5. But Anna sat beside the way daily, on the top of a hill, from\nwhence she might see afar off.\n\n11:6. And while she watched his coming from that place, she saw him afar\noff, and presently perceived it was her son coming: and returning she\ntold her husband, saying: Behold thy son cometh.\n\n11:7. And Raphael said to Tobias: As soon as thou shalt come into thy\nhouse, forthwith adore the Lord thy God: and giving thanks to him, go to\nthy father, and kiss him.\n\n11:8. And immediately anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish, which\nthou carriest with thee. For be assured that his eyes shall be presently\nopened, and thy father shall see the light of heaven, and shall rejoice\nin the sight of thee.\n\n11:9. Then the dog, which had been with them in the way, ran before, and\ncoming as if he had brought the news, shewed his joy by his fawning and\nwagging his tail.\n\nThe dog, etc... This may seem a very minute circumstance to be recorded\nin sacred history: but as we learn from our Saviour, St. Matt. 5.18,\nthere are iotas and tittles in the word of God: that is to say, things\nthat appear minute, but which have indeed a deep and mysterious meaning\nin them.\n\n11:10. And his father that was blind, rising up, began to run stumbling\nwith his feet: and giving a servant his hand, went to meet his son.\n\n11:11. And receiving him kissed him, as did also his wife, and they\nbegan to weep for joy.\n\n11:12. And when they had adored God, and given him thanks, they sat down\ntogether.\n\n11:13. Then Tobias taking of the gall of the fish, anointed his father's\neyes.\n\n11:14. And he stayed about half an hour: and a white skin began to come\nout of his eyes, like the skin of an egg.\n\n11:15. And Tobias took hold of it, and drew it from his eyes, and\nrecovered his sight.\n\n11:16. And they glorified God, both he and his wife and all that knew\nhim.\n\n11:17. And Tobias said: I bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because thou\nhast chastised me, and thou hast saved me and behold I see Tobias my\nson.\n\n11:18. And after seven days Sara his son's wife and all the family\narrived safe, and the cattle, and the camels, and an abundance of money\nof his wife's: and that money also which he had received of Gabelus,\n\n11:19. And he told his parents all the benefits of God, which he had\ndone to him by the man that conducted him.\n\n11:20. And Achior and Nabath the kinsmen of Tobias came, rejoicing for\nTobias, and congratulating with him for all the good things that God had\ndone for him.\n\n11:21. And for seven days they feasted and rejoiced all with great joy.\n\nTobias Chapter 12\n\nRaphael maketh himself known.\n\n12:1. Then Tobias called to him his son and said to him: What can we\ngive to this holy man, that is come with thee?\n\n12:2. Tobias answering, said to his father: Father, what wages shall we\ngive him? or what can be worthy of his benefits?\n\n12:3. He conducted me and brought me safe again, he received the money\nof Gabelus, he caused me to have my wife, and he chased from her the\nevil spirit, he gave joy to her parents, myself he delivered from being\ndevoured by the fish, thee also he hath made to see the light of heaven,\nand we are filled with all good things through him. What can we give him\nsufficient for these things?\n\n12:4. But I beseech thee, my father, to desire him, that he would\nvouchsafe to accept of one half of all things that have been brought.\n\n12:5. So the father and the son calling him, took him aside: and began\nto desire him that he would vouchsafe to accept of half of all things\nthat they had brought,\n\n12:6. Then he said to them secretly, Bless ye the God of heaven, give\nglory to him in the sight of all that live, because he hath shewn his\nmercy to you.\n\n12:7. For it is good to hide the secret of a king: to reveal and confess\nthe works of God.\n\n12:8. Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures\nof gold.\n\n12:9. For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth\naway sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.\n\n12:10. But they that commit sin and iniquity, are enemies to their own\nsoul.\n\n12:11. I discover then the truth unto you, and I will not hide the\nsecret from you.\n\n12:12. When thou didst pray with tears, and didst bury the dead, and\ndidst leave thy dinner, and hide the dead by day in thy house, and bury\nthem by night, I offered thy prayer to the Lord.\n\n12:13. And because thou wast acceptable to God, it was necessary that\ntemptation should prove thee.\n\n12:14. And now the Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara\nthy son's wife from the devil.\n\n12:15. For I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before\nthe Lord.\n\n12:16. And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and\nbeing seized with fear they fell upon the ground on their face.\n\n12:17. And the angel said to them: Peace be to you, fear not.\n\n12:18. For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God: bless ye\nhim, and sing praises to him.\n\n12:19. I seemed indeed to eat and to drink with you but I use an\ninvisible meat and drink, which cannot be seen by men.\n\n12:20. It is time therefore that I return to him that sent me: but bless\nye God, and publish all his wonderful works.\n\n12:21. And when he had said these things, he was taken from their sight,\nand they could see him no more.\n\n12:22. Then they lying prostrate for three hours upon their face,\nblessed God, and rising up, they told all his wonderful works.\n\nTobias Chapter 13\n\nTobias the father praiseth God, exhorting all Israel to do the same.\nProphesieth the restoration and better state of Jerusalem.\n\n13:1. And Tobias the elder opening his mouth, blessed the Lord, and\nsaid: Thou art great O Lord, for ever, and thy kingdom is unto all ages.\n\n13:2. For thou scourgest, and thou savest: thou leadest down to hell,\nand bringest up again: and there is none that can escape thy hand.\n\n13:3. Give glory to the Lord, ye children of Israel, and praise him in\nthe sight of the Gentiles:\n\n13:4. Because he hath therefore scattered you among the Gentiles, who\nknow not him, that you may declare his wonderful works, and make them\nknow that there is no other almighty God besides him.\n\n13:5. He hath chastised us for our iniquities: and he will save us for\nhis own mercy.\n\n13:6. See then what he hath done with us, and with fear and trembling\ngive ye glory to him: and extol the eternal King of worlds in your\nworks.\n\n13:7. As for me, I will praise him in the land of my captivity: because\nhe hath shewn his majesty toward a sinful nation,\n\n13:8. Be converted therefore, ye sinners, and do justice before God,\nbelieving that he will shew his mercy to you.\n\n13:9. And I and my soul will rejoice in him.\n\n13:10. Bless ye the Lord, all his elect, keep days of joy, and give\nglory to him.\n\n13:11. Jerusalem, city of God, the Lord hath chastised thee for the\nworks of thy hands.\n\nJerusalem... What is prophetically delivered here, and in the following\nchapter, with relation to Jerusalem, is partly to be understood of the\nrebuilding of the city after the captivity: and partly of the spiritual\nJerusalem, which is the church of Christ, and the eternal Jerusalem in\nheaven.\n\n13:12. Give glory to the Lord for thy good things, and bless the God\neternal that he may rebuild his tabernacle in thee, and may call back\nall the captives to thee, and thou mayst rejoice for ever and ever.\n\n13:13. Thou shalt shine with a glorious light: and all the ends of the\nearth shall worship thee,\n\n13:14. Nations from afar shall come to thee: and shall bring gifts, and\nshall adore the Lord in thee, and shall esteem thy land as holy.\n\n13:15. For they shall call upon the great name in thee,\n\n13:16. They shall be cursed that shall despise thee: and they shall be\ncondemned that shall blaspheme thee: and blessed shall they be that\nshall build thee up,\n\n13:17. But thou shalt rejoice in thy children, because they shall all be\nblessed, and shall be gathered together to the Lord.\n\n13:18. Blessed are all they that love thee, and that rejoice in thy\npeace,\n\n13:19. My soul, bless thou the Lord, because the Lord our God hath\ndelivered Jerusalem his city from all her troubles.\n\n13:20. Happy shall I be if there shall remain of my seed, to see the\nglory of Jerusalem.\n\n13:21. The gates of Jerusalem shall be built of sapphire, and of\nemerald, and all the walls thereof round about of precious stones.\n\n13:22. All its streets shall be paved with white and clean stones: and\nAlleluia shall be sung in its streets,\n\n13:23. Blessed be the Lord, who hath exalted it, and may he reign over\nit for ever and ever, Amen.\n\nTobias Chapter 14\n\nOld Tobias dieth at the age of a hundred and two years, after exhorting\nhis son and grandsons to piety, foreshewing that Ninive shall be\ndestroyed, and Jerusalem rebuilt.  The younger Tobias returneth with his\nfamily to Raguel, and dieth happily as he had lived.\n\n14:1. And the words of Tobias were ended. And after Tobias was restored\nto his sight, he lived two and forty years, and saw the children of his\ngrandchildren.\n\n14:2. And after he had lived a hundred and two years, he was buried\nhonorably in Ninive.\n\n14:3. For he was six and fifty years old when he lost the sight of his\neyes, and sixty when he recovered it again.\n\n14:4. And the rest of his life was in joy, and with great increase of\nthe fear of God he departed in peace.\n\n14:5. And at the hour of his death he called unto him his son Tobias and\nhis children, seven young men, his grandsons, and said to them:\n\n14:6. The destruction of Ninive is at hand: for the word of the Lord\nmust be fulfilled: and our brethren, that are scattered abroad from the\nland of Israel, shall return to it.\n\n14:7. And all the land thereof that is desert shall be filled with\npeople, and the house of God which is burnt in it, shall again be\nrebuilt: and all that fear God shall return thither.\n\n14:8. And the Gentiles shall leave their idols, and shall come into\nJerusalem, and shall dwell in it.\n\n14:9. And all the kings of the earth shall rejoice in it, adoring the\nKing of Israel.\n\n14:10. Hearken therefore, my children, to your father: serve the Lord in\ntruth, and seek to do the things that please him:\n\n14:11. And command your children that they do justice and almsdeeds, and\nthat they be mindful of God, and bless him at all times in truth, and\nwith all their power.\n\n14:12. And now, children, hear me, and do not stay here: but as soon as\nyou shall bury your mother by me in one sepulchre, without delay direct\nyour steps to depart hence:\n\n14:13. For I see that its iniquity will bring it to destruction.\n\n14:14. And it came to pass that after the death of his mother, Tobias\ndeparted out of Ninive with his wife, and children, and children's\nchildren, and returned to his father and mother in law.\n\n14:15. And he found them in health in a good old age: and he took care\nof them, and he closed their eyes: and all the inheritance of Raguel's\nhouse came to him: and he saw his children's children to the fifth\ngeneration.\n\n14:16. And after he had lived ninety-nine years in the fear of the Lord,\nwith joy they buried him.\n\n14:17. And all his kindred, and all his generation continued in good\nlife, and in holy conversation, so that they were acceptable both to\nGod, and to men, and to all that dwelt in the land.","title":"The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias: The Challoner Revision","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":8096}