Tobit 3
3 The prayer of Tobit. 7 Sarra Raguel’s daughter, and the things that came unto her. 12 Her prayer heard. 13 The Angel Raphael sent.
THEN I, being sorrowful, did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, saying,
O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works, and all thy ways are mercy and truth, and thou judge truly and justly for ever.
Remember me and look on me, neither punish me according to my sins or mine ignorances or my fathers, which have sinned before thee.
For they have not obeyed thy commandments: wherefore you have delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and to death, and for a proverb of a reproach to all them among whom we are dispersed, and now thou hast many and just causes,
To do with me according to my sins, and my fathers, because we have not kept thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee.
Now therefore deal with me as seems best unto thee, and command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become earth: for it is better for me to die than to live, because I have hears said reproaches, and am very sorrowful: command therefore that I may be dissolved out of this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
It came to pass the same day that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sarra the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father’s maids,
Because she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before that they had lain with her. Doest thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast had now seven husbands, neither were thou named after any of them.
wherefore doest thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways hence to them, that we may never see of thee either son or daughter.
When 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 I shall slander him, and shall bring his age to the grave with sorrow.
Then she prayed toward the window and said, Blessed art thou, o Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious Name is blessed, and honorable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.
And now, o Lord, I set mine eyes, and my face toward thee,
And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more any reproach.
Thou knowest, o Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
And that I have 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 has he any man child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman or child born of him, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands are now dead, and why should I live? But if it please not thee that I should die, command to look on me, and to pity me that I do not more hear reproach.
So they prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the great God.
And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to take away the whiteness of Tobits eyes, and to give Sarra 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. The self same time came Tobit home, and entered into his house, and Sarra the daughter of Raguel came down from her chamber.
Tobit 4
Precepts and exhortations of Tobit to his son.
IN that day Tobit remembered the silver, which he had delivered to Gabael in Rages a city of Media,
And said with himself, I have wished for death: wherefore do I not call for my son Tobias that I may admonish him before I die?
And when he had called him, he said, My son, after that I am dead, bury me, and despise not thy mother, but honor her all the days of thy life, and do that which shall please her, and anger her not.
Remember, my son, how many dangers she sustained when thou wast in her womb, and when she dies, bury her by me in the same grave.
My son, set our Lord God always before thine eyes, and let not thy will be set to sin or to transgress the commandments of God. Do uprightly all thy life long, and follow not the ways of unrighteousness: for if you deal truly, thy doings shall prosperously succeed to thee, and to all them which live justly.
Give alms of thy substance: and when thou givest alms, let not mine eye be envious, neither turn thy face from any poor, left that God turn his face from thee:
Give alms according to thy substance: if thou have but a little, be not afraid to give a little alms.
For thou layest up a good store for thyself against the day of necessity,
Because that alms doth deliver from death, and suffer not to come into darkness.
For alms is a good gift before the most High to all them which use it.
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 for thy fathers stock: for we are the children of the Prophets. Noe, Abraham, Isaac and Iacob are our fathers from the beginning. Remember my son that they married wives of their own kindred, and were blessed in their children and their seed shall inherit the land.
Now therefore, my son, love thy brethren, and despise not in thine heart the sons and daughters of thy people in not taking a wife of them: for in pride is destruction, and much trouble, and in fierceness is scarcity, and great poverty: for fierceness is the mother of famine.
Let not the wages of any man, which hath wrought for thee, tarry with thee, but give him it out of hand: for if thou serve God, he will also pay thee: be circumspect, my son, in all things that thou do, and be well instructed in all thy conversation.
Do that to no man which thou hate: drink not wine to make thee drunk, neither let drunkenness go with thee in thy journey.
Give of thy bread to the hungry, and of thy garments to them that are naked, and of all thine abundance give alms, and let not thine eyes be envious, when thou givest alms.
Pour out thy bread on the burial of the just, but give nothing to the wicked.
Ask counsel always of the wise, and despise not any counsel that is profitable.
Bless thy Lord God always, and desire of him that thy ways may be made straight and that all thy purposes, and counsels may prosper: for every nation hath not counsel: but the Lord giveth all good things, and he humbles whom he will, as he will: now therefore, my son, remember my commandments, neither let them at any time be put out of thy mind.
Furthermore I signify this to thee, that I delivered ten talents to Gabael the son of Gabrias at Rages in Media.
And fear not, my son, for as much as we are made poor: for thou hast many things, if you fear God, and flee from sin, and do the thing which is acceptable unto him.
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