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[1]As they nowe were going homeward againe, vpon the eleuenth day they came to Charran, which lyeth in the halfe way toward Niniue.
[2]And the angell saide: Brother Tobias, thou knowest how thou hast left thy father:
[3]Therfore if it please thee, we two wyl go before, and let the housholde with thy wyfe & the cattaile come faire and softly after vs.
[4]And when Tobias was content that they should go before, Raphael said vnto him: Take of the gal of the fishe with thee, for it shall be necessary. So Tobias toke of the gall, and they went their way.
[5]But Anna the mother of Tobias sate dayly by the way side vpon the toppe of an hill, from whence she might see farre about her.
[6]And whyle she was wayting there for his comming, she loked a farre of, and anone she perceaued her sonne comming, and ranne and tolde her husband, saying: beholde thy sonne commeth.
[7]And Raphael saide vnto Tobias: Assoone as thou commest into the house, immediatly worship the lorde thy God, and geue thankes vnto him: then go to thy father, and kisse hym,
[8]And straight wayes strike his eyes ouer with the gall of the fishe that thou hast brought with thee: For be sure that his eyes shall straight way be opened, and thy father shall see the light of heauen, and shal reioyce at the sight of thee.
[9]Then the dogge that had ben with them in their iourney, ranne before, and came as a messenger, and wagged his tayle for gladnesse.
[10]So the blynde father arose, and began to runne, and stumbled with his feete: and gaue a seruaunt his hand, & ranne to meete his sonne,
[11]Receaued him, and kissed him, he and his wyfe, and they both began to weepe for ioy.
[12]Now when they had worshipped and thanked God, they sat downe.
[13]Then tooke Tobias of the fishes gall, and annoynted his fathers eyes:
[14]And taryed halfe an houre, and then began the blemishe to go out of his eyes, lyke as it had ben the white skinne of an egge:
[15]Which Tobias tooke, and drew from his eyes, and immediatly he receaued his sight.
[16]Then they praysed God, he and his wyfe, and all they that knew him.
[17]And Tobias saide: O Lorde God of Israel I geue thee prayse & thankes, for thou hast chastened me, & made me whole: And lo, nowe do I see my sonne Tobias.
[18]After seuen dayes, came Sara his sonnes wyfe also whole and sound, with all the housholde and cattaile, with camels, & much money of his wyues, and with the money that he had receaued of Gabelus.
[19]And he tolde his father and his mother all the benefites which God had done for him by the man that led him.
[20]Achior also and Nabath Tobias sister sonnes came, and were glad, and reioyced with him, by reason of all the good thinges that God had shewed vnto him: And so for the space of seuen dayes they made mery, and were right ioyfull euery one.
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