BOOK OF TOBIT.

...you have preserved me for another man. For your plan is not in the power of man. But everyone who worships you has this as a certainty: that if his life has been in a trial, it will be crowned; but if it has been in tribulation, it will be delivered: and if it has been under correction, it will be allowed to come to your mercy original: "pervenire". For you do not delight in our destructions: because after a storm, you make it calm: and after weeping and wailing, you infuse joy. May your name, God of Israel, be blessed forever.

At that time, the prayers of both were heard in the sight of the glory of the most high God: and the holy angel of the Lord, Raphael, was sent to heal them both original: "ambos", whose prayers were recited at one time in the sight of the Lord.

[Chap. IV.] Therefore, when Tobias thought that his prayer was heard so that he could die, he called his son Tobias to him, and said to him: Listen, my son, to the words of my mouth, and lay them up in your heart, as if building a foundation. When God shall receive my soul, bury my body; and you shall have honor for your mother all the days of her life: for you must be mindful of what and how great dangers she suffered for you in her womb. And when she also has completed the time of her life, bury her beside me. But all the days of your life, keep God in your mind: and take care, lest you ever consent to sin, and neglect the commandments of the Lord our God. Give alms from your substance, and do not turn your face away from any poor person: for so it shall come to pass, that the face of the Lord will not be turned away from you. As you are able, so be merciful. If you have much, give abundantly: if you have little, strive to impart even the little willingly. For you are storing up a good reward for yourself in the day of necessity. Since almsgiving delivers from all sin and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness. Almsgiving will be a great confidence before the most high God for all those who perform it original: "qui faciunt". Take heed to yourself, my son, from all fornication, and except for your wife, never allow yourself to know crime. Never allow pride to dominate in your mind, or in your word: for in it all destruction has its beginning. Whoever performs any work for you, immediately pay him his wages, and let the wages of your hireling not remain with you at all. What you hate to be done to you by another, see that you do not ever do to another. Eat your bread with the hungry and the needy, and cover the naked with your clothes. Place your bread and your wine upon the grave of the just, and do not eat and drink from it with sinners. Always seek counsel from a wise man. At every time, bless God: and ask of him, that he may direct your ways, and that all your counsels may abide in him.

I also inform you, my son, that I gave ten talents of silver to Gabelus, in the city of Rages of the Medes, while you were still a little child, and I have his note of hand chirographum handwritten document/contract in my possession: and therefore, seek how you may come to him, and receive from him the above-mentioned weight of silver, and return to him his note of hand. Do not fear, my son: we live a poor life indeed, but we shall have many good things, if we have feared God, and have departed from all sin, and have done good.

[Chap. V.] Then Tobias answered his father, and said: Everything that you have commanded me, I will do, father. But how I shall seek this money, I do not know. He does not know me, and I do not know him: what sign shall I give him? Moreover, I have never known the way by which one travels there. Then his father answered him, and said: I have his note of hand with me, which, when you show it to him, he will immediately restore. But go now, and find for yourself some faithful man who may go with you for a safe wage: so that, while I am still living, you may receive it.

Then Tobias went out, and found a handsome young man, standing girded and as if prepared to walk. And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he greeted him, and said: Where are you from, good young man? But he answered: From the sons of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Do you know the way that leads to the region of the Medes? To whom he answered: I know it; and I have frequently walked all its paths, and I have stayed with Gabelus our brother: who dwells in Rages, a city of the Medes, which is situated on the mountain of Ecbatana. To whom Tobias said: Wait for me, I pray, until I tell these very things to my father.

Then Tobias went in, and told all these things to his father. At which the father was amazed, and asked that he should come in to him.

Having entered, therefore, he greeted him, and said: May joy be with you always. And Tobias said: What kind of joy shall I have, who sit in darkness, and do not see the light of heaven? To whom the young man said: Be of strong heart, it is near that you shall be healed by God. Tobias therefore said to him: Can you take my son to Gabelus in Rages, a city of the Medes? And when you return, I will restore to you your wages. And the angel said to him: I will lead him and bring him back to you. To whom Tobias answered original: "Hic quoque nomen Domini idem. ms. tacet.": I ask you, tell me, from what house, or from what tribe are you? To whom the angel Raphael said: Do you seek the lineage of a hireling, or the hireling himself, who may go with your son? But lest I perhaps make you anxious, I am Azarias, the son of the great Ananias. And Tobias answered: You are from a great lineage. But I ask that you not be angry that I wished to know your lineage. But the angel said to him: I will lead your son safe, and I will bring him back safe to you. Tobias, answering, said: May you walk well, and may God be on your journey, and may his angel accompany you.

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Gloss 1: The pronoun "them", the same manuscript is silent; then it reads, "Whose prayer had been recited at one time in the sight of the Lord."
Gloss 2: Here also the name of the Lord, the same manuscript is silent.