3:5 And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me according to
my sins and my fathers’: because we have not kept thy commandments,
neither have walked in truth before thee.
3:6 Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and command
my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, and become
earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than to live, because
I have heard false reproaches, and have much sorrow: command therefore
that I may now be delivered out of this distress, and go into the
everlasting place: turn not thy face away from me.
3:7 It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of Media Sara
the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her father’s maids;
3:8 Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom Asmodeus
the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with her. Dost thou
not know, said they, that thou hast strangled thine husbands? thou hast
had already seven husbands, neither wast thou named after any of them.
3:9 Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy ways
after them, let us never see of thee either son or daughter.
3:10 Whe 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, it shall be a reproach unto him, and I
shall bring his old age with sorrow unto the grave.
3:11 Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art thou, O
Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed and honourable
for ever: let all thy works praise thee for ever.
3:12 And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee,
3:13 And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more the
reproach.
3:14 Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
3:15 And that I 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
hath he any child to be his heir, neither any near kinsman, nor any son
of his alive, to whom I may keep myself for a wife: my seven husbands
are already dead; and why should I live? but if it please not thee that
I should die, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of
me, that I hear no more reproach.
3:16 So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of the
great God.
3:17 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.
4:1 In that day Tobit remembered the money which he had committed to
Gabael in Rages of Media,
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?
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