The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias: The Challoner Revision
Religion
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias: The Challoner Revision
Bible. Apocrypha. Tobit
5:8. And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the
ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at
Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.
5:9. And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell
these same things to my father.
5:10. Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon
which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto
him.
5:11. So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.
5:12. And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in
darkness and see not the light of heaven?
5:13. And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from
God is at hand.
5:14. And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at
Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee
thy hire.
5:15. And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring
him back to thee.
5:16. And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or
what tribe art thou?
5:17. And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him
thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?
5:18. But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the
great Ananias.
Azarias... The angel took the form of Azarias: and therefore might call
himself by the name of the man whom he personated. Azarias, in Hebrew,
signifies the help of God, and Ananias the grace of God.
5:19. And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee
be not angry that I desired to know thy family.
5:20. And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him
to thee again safe.
5:21. And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God
be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.
5:22. Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their
journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set
out both together.
5:23. And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say:
Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.
5:24. I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.
5:25. For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as
riches, that we saw our son.
5:26. And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither
safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.
5:27. For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and
doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall
return to us with joy.
5:28. At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.
Tobias Chapter 6
By the angel's advice young Tobias taketh hold on a fish that assaulteth
him. Reserveth the heart, the gall, and the liver for medicines. They
lodge at the house of Raguel, whose daughter Sara, Tobias is to marry;
she had before been married to seven husbands, who were all slain by a
devil.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account