4 But his wife said to him, “The child has perished, seeing he waits long.” She began to bewail him, and said, (WEB) 5 “I care about nothing, my child, since I have let you go, the light of my eyes.” (WEB) 6 Tobit said to her, “Hold your peace. Don’t worry. He is in good health.” (WEB) 7 And she said to him, “Hold your peace. Don’t deceive me. My child has perished.” And she went out every day into the way by which they went, and ate no bread in the day-time, and didn’t stop bewailing her son Tobias for whole nights, until the fourteen days of the wedding feast were expired, which Raguel had sworn that he should spend there. Then Tobias said to Raguel, “Send me away, for my father and my mother look no more to see me.” (WEB) 8 But his father-in-law said to him, “Stay with me, and I will send to your father, and they will declare to him how things go with you.” (WEB) 9 Tobias said, “No. Send me away to my father.” (WEB)
Tobit 10:4–9
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16 And so they agreed. And he said to Tobias, “Prepare yourself for the journey. May God prosper you.” So his son prepared what was needful for the journey, and his father said to him, “Go with this man; but God, who dwells in heaven, will prosper your journey.… (WEB) 17 … (WEB)
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Tobit 11:1–3
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Genesis 44:33–34
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Tobit 7:4–6
4 He said to them, “Do you know Tobit our brother?” They said, “We know him.” Then he said to them, “Is he in good health?” (WEB) 5 They said, “He is both alive, and in good health.” Tobias said, “He is my father.” (WEB) 6 And Raguel sprang up, and kissed him, wept, (WEB)
Tobit 3:8–10
8 because that she had been given to seven husbands, and Asmodaeus the evil spirit killed them, before they had lain with her. And they said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You have had already seven husbands, and you haven’t borne the… (WEB)
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