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CHAPTER 5
1 Then Tobias answered to his father and said, Father, I shall do all things, whichever thou commandedest to me [or Whatever thou hast commanded to me, Father, I shall do];
2 but I know not, how I shall get this money; Gabael knoweth not me, and I know not him; what token shall I give to him? but neither I knew anytime the way, by which me goeth thither.
3 Then his father answered to him, and said, Certainly I have his obligation here with me, which the while thou showest it to him, he shall restore [or he shall yield] anon (or at once) the money.
4 But go now, and inquire, [or ensearch, (or search out)] to (or for) thee some faithful man, that shall go with thee for his hire safe, (so) that thou receive that money yet while I live.
5 Then Tobias went forth, and he found a shining young man, standing, tucked up [or gird(ed)], and as ready to go;
6 and he knew not that it was the angel of God [or an angel of God]. And he greeted the young man, and said, Of whence have we thee, good young man?
7 And he answered, I am of the sons of Israel. And Tobias said to him, Knowest thou the way, that leadeth into the country of Media?
8 To whom he answered, I know it, and I have gone often all the ways thereof, and I have dwelled with Gabael, your cousin or your brother, that dwelleth in Rages, a city of Media, which city is set in Ecbatana.
9 To whom Tobias said, I beseech thee, abide thou me here, till I tell these things to my father.
10 Then Tobias entered, and told all these things to his father; on the which things his father wondered, and he prayed the young man, that he would enter in to him [or that he should come in to him].
11 Then he entered, and greeted, or saluted, Tobit, and said to him, Joy be ever[more] to thee!
12 And Tobit said, What manner joy shall be to me, that sit in darknesses, and see not the light of heaven?
13 To whom the young man said, Be thou of strong wit; it is in the most nigh time, or full nigh (time), that thou be healed of (or by) God [or full nigh it is that of God thou be cured].
14 Then Tobit said to him, Whether thou mayest lead my son to Gabael into Rages, a city of Media, and when thou comest again, I shall restore [or I shall yield] thy meed to thee?
15 And the angel said to him, I shall lead him thither, and bring again him to thee or and I shall lead again him whole to thee.
16 To whom Tobit answered, I pray thee, show to me, of what house, either [or] of what lineage thou art?
17 To whom Raphael, the angel, said, Askest thou the kin [or the kindred] of the hired man, either askest thou who is the hired man himself, that shall go with thy son?
18 But lest peradventure I make thee doubtful, I am Azariah, that is interpreted, the helper of God, the son of the great Ananias, that is interpreted, the grace of God.
19 And Tobit answered, Thou art of great kin; but I ask or (I) pray thee, that thou be not wroth, that I would know thy kin [or thy kindred].
20 And the angel said to him, I shall lead forth thy son whole [or sound], and I shall bring again to thee thy son whole [or sound] or I shall lead him again whole [or sound] to thee.
21 And Tobit answered, and said, Well go ye, and the Lord be in (or on) your way, and his angel go with you.
22 Then when all things were ready, that should be borne in (or on) the way with them, Tobias made farewell to his father and his mother; and both went together or and they walked forth both together.
23 And when they were gone forth, his mother began to weep, and to say to Tobit her husband, Thou hast taken the staff*That is, the sustaining, for children owe to fathers and mothers the service of reverence, and of needful purveyance, if they have need., or the substance, of our eld (age), and hast sent him away from us;
24 I would that that money had never been, that thou hast sent him for, or for which thou sentest him;
25 our poverty sufficed to us, (so) that we should have areckoned this thing to be riches to us, or (so) that we should areckon this riches, that we see our son.
26 And Tobit said to her, Do not thou weep; our son shall come safe thither, and he shall (re)turn again safe to us, and thine eyes shall see him (again).
27 Soothly (or Truly) I believe, that the good angel of God goeth with him, and he/that angel shall dispose well all things, that be done about him, so that he (re)turn again with joy to us.
28 At this voice, or word, his mother ceased to weep, and was still.

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*CHAPTER 5:23 That is, the sustaining, for children owe to fathers and mothers the service of reverence, and of needful purveyance, if they have need.

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