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chapter 8
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after they had supped, they brought in the young man to her.
2 And Tobias remembering the angel's word, took out of
his bag part of the liver, and laid it upon burning coals.
3 Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him
in the desert of upper Egypt.
4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her:
Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day:
because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night
is over, we will be in our own wedlock.
5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be
joined together like heathens that know not God.
6 So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both
together that health might be given them,
7 And Tobias said: Lord God of our father, may the
heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all
thy creatures that are in them, bless thee.
8 Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and
gavest him Eve for a helper.
9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly
lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which
thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.
10 Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy
on us, and let us grow old both together in health.
11 And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel
ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a
grave.
12 For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to
him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto
her.
13 And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back
to his wife, and said to her:
14 Send one of thy maids, and let her see if he be
dead, that I may bury him before it be day.
15 So she sent one of her maidservants, who went into
the chamber, and found them safe and sound, sleeping both together.
16 And returning she brought the good news: and Raguel
and Anna his wife blessed the Lord,
17 And said: We bless thee, O Lord God of Israel, because
it hath not happened as we suspected.
18 For thou hast shewn thy mercy to us, and hast shut
out from us the enemy that persecuted us.
19 And thou hast taken pity upon two only children.
Make them, O Lord, bless thee more fully: and to offer up to thee a sacrifice
of thy praise, and of their health, that all nations may know, that thou alone
art God in all the earth.
20 And immediately Raguel commanded his servants, to
fill up the pit they had made, before it was day.
21 And he spoke to his wife to make ready a feast, and
prepare all kind of provisions that are necessary for such as go a journey.
22 He caused also two fat kine, and four wethers to be
killed, and a banquet to be prepared for all his neighbours, and all his
friends.
23 And Raguel adjured Tobias, to abide with him two
weeks.
24 And of all things which Raguel possessed, he gave
one half to Tobias, and made him a writing, that the half that remained should
after their decease come also to Tobias.
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