CHAP. X.
The parents lament the long
absence of their son Tobias.
He sets out to return.
1 But as Tobias made longer
stay upon occasion of the
marriage, Tobias his father
was solicitous, saying: Why
thinkest thou doth my son
tarry, or why is he detained
there?
2 Is Gabelus dead thinkest
thou, and no man will pay
him the money?
3 And he began to be exceeding
sad, both he and Anna
his wife with him: and they
began both to weep together:
because their son did not return
to them on the day appointed.
4 But his mother wept and
was quite disconsolate, and
said: Wo, wo is me, my
son, why did we send thee to
go to a strange country, the
light of our eyes, the staff of
our old age, the comfort of
our life, the hope of our posterity.
5 We having all things
together in thee alone, ought
not to have let thee go from
us.
6 And Tobias said to her:
Hold thy peace, and be not
troubled, our son is safe, that
man with whom we sent him
is very trusty.
7 But she could by no
means be comforted, but daily
running out looked round about,
and went into all the
ways by which there seemed
any hope he might return,
that she might if possible see
him coming a-far off.
8 But Raguel said to his
son-in law: Stay here, and I
will send a messenger to Tobias
thy father, that thou art
in health.
9 And Tobias said to him:
I know that my father and
mother now count the days,
and their spirit is grievously afflicted
within them.
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10 And when Raguel had
pressed Tobias with many
words, and he by no means
would hearken to him, he delivered
Sara unto him, and
half of all his substance in
men-servants, and women-servants,
in cattle, in camels,
and in kine, and in much money,
and sent him away safe
and joyful from him,
11 Saying: The holy Angel
of the Lord be with you in
your journey, and bring you
through safe, and that you
may find all things well about
your parents, and my eyes
may see your children before
I die.
12 And the parents taking
their daughter, kissed her, and
let her go:
13 Admonishing her to
honour her father and mother-in-law,
to love her husband,
to take care of the family, to
govern well the house, and to
behave herself without blame.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
