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chapter 6
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And Tobias
went forward, and the dog followed him, and he lodged the first night by the
river of Tigris.
2 And he went out to wash his feet, and behold a
monstrous fish came up to devour him.
3 And Tobias being afraid of him, cried out with a loud
voice, saying: Sir, he cometh upon me.
4 And the angel said to him: Take him by the gill, and
draw him to thee. And when he had done so, he drew him out upon the land, and
he began to pant before his feet.
5 Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of
the fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these
are necessary for useful medicines.
6 And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh
thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as
might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes.
7 Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I
beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for,
which thou hast bid me keep of the fish?
8 And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a
little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind
of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them.
9 And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which
there is a white speck, and they shall be cured.
10 And Tobias said to him: Where wilt thou that we
lodge?
11 And the angel answering, said: Here is one whose
name is Raguel, a near kinsman of thy tribe, and he hath a daughter named Sara,
but he hath no son nor any other daughter beside her.
12 All his substance is due to thee, and thou must take
her to wife.
13 Ask her therefore of her father, and he will give
her thee to wife.
14 Then Tobias answered, and said: I hear that she hath
been given to seven husbands, and they all died: moreover I have heard, that a
devil killed them.
15 Now I am afraid, lest the same thing should happen
to me also: and whereas I am the only child of my parents, I should bring down
their old age with sorrow to hell.
16 Then the angel Raphael said to him: Hear me, and I
will shew thee who they are, over whom the devil can prevail.
17 For they who in such manner receive matrimony, as to
shut out God from themselves, and from their mind, and to give themselves to
their lust, as the horse and mule, which have not understanding, over them the
devil hath power.
18 But thou when thou shalt take her, go into the
chamber, and for three days keep thyself continent from her, and give thyself
to nothing else but to prayers with her.
19 And on that night lay the liver of the fish on the
fire, and the devil shall be driven away.
20 But the second night thou shalt be admitted into the
society of the holy Patriarchs.
21 And the third night thou shalt obtain a blessing
that sound children may be born of you.
22 And when the third night is past, thou shalt take
the virgin with the fear of the Lord, moved rather for love of children than
for lust, that in the seed of Abraham thou mayst obtain a blessing in children.
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