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| [1]And as they went on their journey, they came in the evening to the river Tigris, and they lodged there. |
[1]So Tobias went on his way, and a dogge folowed him: and the first night they abode by the water of Tigris. |
| [2]And when the young man went down to wash himself, a fish leaped out of the river, and would have devoured him. |
[2]Then went he out to washe his feete, and beholde there came foorth an horrible fishe to deuour him. |
| [3]Then the angel said unto him, Take the fish. And the young man laid hold of the fish, and drew it to land. |
[3]Of whom Tobias was afrayde, and cryed with a loude voyce, saying: Lord, he commeth vpon me. |
| [4]To whom the angel said, Open the fish, and take the heart and the liver and the gall, and put them up safely. |
[4]And the angell saide vnto him: Take him by the gyll, and drawe him to thee. And he did so, and drew him vpon the lande: and the fishe began to leape at his feete. |
| [5]So the young man did as the angel commanded him; and when they had roasted the fish, they did eat it: then they both went on their way, till they drew near to Ecbatane. |
[5]Then saide the angell vnto him, Take out the bowels of this fishe: & as for the heart, the gal, and the lyuer, keepe them by thee: for these thinges are necessary and good for medicines. |
| [6]Then the young man said to the angel, Brother Azarias, to what use is the heart and the liver and the gal of the fish? |
[6]Tobias did so, and rosted the flesh, and they tooke it with them in their iourney: the residue they salted, as much as was sufficient for them, tyll they came to Rages a citie of the Medes. |
| [7]And he said unto him, Touching the heart and the liver, if a devil or an evil spirit trouble any, we must make a smoke thereof before the man or the woman, and the party shall be no more vexed. |
[7]Then Tobias asked the angell, and saide vnto him: I pray thee brother Azaria, tell me whereto are these thinges good of the fishe that thou hast bidden me keepe. |
| [8]As for the gall, it is good to anoint a man that hath whiteness in his eyes, and he shall be healed. |
[8]The angell aunswered him, and said: If thou layest a peece of the heart vpon the coales, the smoke thereof dryueth away all maner of euill spirites, whether it be from man or from woman, so that from thencefoorth the same shall come no more vnto them. |
| [9]And when they were come near to Rages, |
[9]The gal is good to annoynt or to strike the eyes withall, where as there is any blemishe in them, so that they shalbe whole. |
| [10]The angel said to the young man, Brother, to day we shall lodge with Raguel, who is thy cousin; he also hath one only daughter, named Sara; I will speak for her, that she may be given thee for a wife. |
[10]And Tobias saide vnto him: Where wilt thou that we remaine? The angell aunswered, |
| [11]For to thee doth the right of her appertain, seeing thou only art of her kindred. |
[11]And saide: Here is a nye kinsman of thyne and of thy tribe, one Raguel by name, which hath a daughter called Sara, & hath neither sonne nor daughter but her. |
| [12]And the maid is fair and wise: now therefore hear me, and I will speak to her father; and when we return from Rages we will celebrate the marriage: for I know that Raguel cannot marry her to another according to the law of Moses, but he shall be guilty of death, because the right of inheritance doth rather appertain to thee than to any other. |
[12]All his good belongeth vnto thee, and thou must mary her. |
| [13]Then the young man answered the angel, I have heard, brother Azarias that this maid hath been given to seven men, who all died in the marriage chamber. |
[13]And therefore desire her of her father, and he shall geue her thee to wyfe. |
| [14]And now I am the only son of my father, and I am afraid, lest if I go in unto her, I die, as the other before: for a wicked spirit loveth her, which hurteth no body, but those which come unto her; wherefore I also fear lest I die, and bring my father's and my mother's life because of me to the grave with sorrow: for they have no other son to bury them. |
[14]Then aunswered Tobias and saide: As I vnderstand she hath ben maryed vnto seuen husbandes, and they all are dead: and I haue heard say, that the deuill slue them. |
| [15]Then the angel said unto him, Dost thou not remember the precepts which thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage. |
[15]I am afrayd therfore lest such thinges happen vnto me also: which if it came to passe, seeing I am the onely sonne of my father and my mother, I should bryng them in their age with sorowe to their graues. |
| [16]And when thou shalt come into the marriage chamber, thou shalt take the ashes of perfume, and shalt lay upon them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and shalt make a smoke with it: |
[16]Then saide the angell Raphael vnto him: Heare me, & I wyll tell thee what they be, of whom the deuil hath power. |
| [17]And the devil shall smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more: but when thou shalt come to her, rise up both of you, and pray to God which is merciful, who will have pity on you, and save you: fear not, for she is appointed unto thee from the beginning; and thou shalt preserve her, and she shall go with thee. Moreover I suppose that she shall bear thee children. Now when Tobias had heard these things, he loved her, and his heart was effectually joined to her. |
[17]Namely, they that receaue mariage after such a fashion that they shut God out from them and from their heart, and geue them selues to their owne lust, euen as it were an Horse & Mule which haue no vnderstanding: vpon such hath the deuill power. |
| [18]But when thou takest her, and art come in to the chamber, withhold thy selfe from her three dayes, and geue thy diligence vnto nothing but vnto prayer with her. |
| [19]And in the first night, rost the lyuer of the fishe, and the deuill shalbe driuen away. |
| [20]The second night shalt thou be receaued into the company of the holy patriarches. |
| [21]The third night shalt thou obtayne the blessing of God, so that whole children shall be borne of you. |
| [22]After the third night take the mayden in the feare of God, and more for the desire of children, then for any fleshely lust, that in the seede of Abraham thou mayest obtayne the blessing in children. |