Bible Verses

let us go ahead to prepare the house before your wife Sarah arrives.

Raphael said to Tobiah: “You know in what state your father Tobit was when we left him;

Healing of Tobit When they arrived near Kaserin, which faces the city of Nineveh,

After that, Tobiah left Raguel’s house. He praised God who had brought his journey to such a happy conclusion, and he blessed Raguel and his wife, Edna.

To his daughter, Sarah, he said: “Honor your parents-in-law, since from now on they are your parents just as we are who gave you life. Go in peace, my daughter, and may we always hear good things of you.” He embraced her and let them depart. Edna, in her turn, said to Tobiah: “My dear

Bidding farewell to Tobiah, he said to him:“Goodbye, my son, safe journey! May the Lord of Heaven bless you and make you fruitful, and may I see your children before I die.”

Then Raguel handed over to him his wife Sarah and half of all his goods: servants, oxen, sheep, donkeys, camels, clothes, silver, and various other things. Raguel blessed them and allowed them to set out.

Tobiah said: “No, let me go to them.”

Raguel replied: “Stay with me and I will send messengers to your father to give him news of you.”

She replied: “Keep quiet, do not try to deceive me, my child is dead.” Every day, she went out along the road that her son had taken. By day, she took no food; by night, she never ceased crying, unable to sleep. When the fourteen days of festivities were over, during which Raguel had sworn