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[1]Now after that they had supped, they brought the young man in to her.
[2]Then thought Tobias vpon the wordes of the angel, and toke out of his bagge a peece of, the lyuer of the fishe, and layed it vpon the hotte coales.
[3]So the angell Raphael tooke holde of the deuil, and sent him away, & bound him in the wildernesse of the hygher Egypt.
[4]Then spake Tobias vnto the virgin, and saide: Up Sara, let vs make our prayer vnto God to day, to morow, and ouermorow: For these three nightes wyl we reconcile our selues with God, and when the third holy night is past, we shall ioyne together in the due tie of mariage.
[5]For we are the children of holy men, and we may not come together as the heathen that know not God.
[6]Then stoode they vp both together, and besought God earnestly that he would preserue them.
[7]And Tobias saide: O Lorde God of our fathers, praysed be thou of heauen and earth, of the sea, welles, & fluddes, and of al thy creatures that be therein.
[8]Thou madest Adam of the moulde of the earth, and gauest him Eua for an helper.
[9]And now Lorde thou knowest that it is not because of voluptuousnes that I take this sister of myne to wyfe, but onely for the loue of children, in whom thy name may be blessed for euer.
[10]And Sara saide: Haue mercie vpon vs O Lorde, haue mercy vpon vs, and let vs both come whole and sounde together to a good age.
[11]And about the cocke crowing, it came to passe, that Raguel called his seruautes:
[12]And they went with him to make a graue.
[13]For he saide: It is chaunced nowe vnto him peraduenture as it did vnto the other seuen men that went in vnto her.
[14]Now when they had made the graue, Raguel came againe to his wyfe, and saide vnto her: Send one of thy maydens to loke if he be dead, that I may bury him afore it be light day.
[15]So she sent a mayden to see: which when she came into the chamber, found them whole and founde, sleeping together.
[16]And so she came againe, and brought good tidinges: Then Raguel and Anna his wyfe praysed the Lorde,
[17]And saide: Praysed be thou O Lorde God of Israel, that it is not happened vnto vs as we thought.
[18]For thou hast dealt mercifully with vs, and put away from vs the enemie that persecuted vs,
[19]And hast shewed mercy vnto yonder two the onely borne children of their parentes: O Lorde, cause them to magnifie thee more perfectly, and to offer the sacrifice of thy prayse & of their health: that all people may knowe that thou onely art God in all the earth.
[20]And immediatly Raguel commaunded his seruauntes to fyll the graue that they had made, with earth, afore it was light,
[21]And bade his wyfe prepare a feaste, & to make redie all thinges that were necessary for meate, to such as went by the way.
[22]He caused two fat kine also and foure weathers to be slaine, and meates to be prepared for all his neighbours and freindes.
[23]And Raguel charged Tobias to remayne with him two weekes.
[24]As for all the good that he had, he gaue Tobias the halfe of it, and made this writing, that the halfe which remayned, should fall vnto Tobias after their death.
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