in lightness.  I consented for to take an husband with thy dread.  Or I was unworthy to them or haply they were unworthy to me, or haply thou hast conserved and kept me for some other man.  Thy counsel is not in man’s power.  This knoweth every man that worshippeth thee, for the life of him if it be in probation shall be crowned, and if it be in tribulation it shall be delivered, and if it be in correction, it shall be lawful to come to mercy.  Thou hast none delectation in our perdition, for after tempest thou makest tranquillity, and after weeping and shedding of tears thou bringest in exultation and joy.  Thy name, God of Israel, be blessed, world without end.

In that same time were the prayers of them both heard in the sight of the glory of the high God.  And the holy angel of God, Raphael, was sent to heal them both.  Of whom in one time were the prayers recited in the sight of our Lord God.  Then when Tobit supposed his prayers to be heard that he might die, he called to him his son Tobias, and said to him:  Hear, my son, the words of my mouth, and set them in thy heart as a fundament.  When God shall take away my soul, bury my body, and thou shalt worship thy mother all the days of her life, thou owest to remember what and how many perils she hath suffered for thee in her womb.  When she shall have accomplished the time of her life, bury her by me.  All the days of thy life have God in thy mind, and beware that thou never consent to sin, ne to disobey ne break the commandments of God.  Of thy substance do alms, and turn never thy face from any poor man, so do that God turn not his face from thee.  As much as thou mayst, be merciful, if thou have much good give abundantly, if thou have but little, yet study to give and to depart thereof gladly, for thou makest to thee thereof good treasure and meed in the day of necessity, for alms delivereth a man from all sin and from death, and suffereth not his soul to go in to darkness.  Alms is a great sikerness [surety] tofore the high God unto all them that do it.  Beware, my son, keep thee from all uncleanness, and suffer not thyself to know that sin; and suffer never pride to have domination in thy wit, ne in thy word, that sin was the beginning of all perdition.  Whosomever work to thee any thing, anon yield to him his meed and hire, let never the hire of thy servant ne meed of thy mercenary remain in no wise with thee.  That thou hatest to be done to thee of other, see that thou never do to an other.  Eat thy bread with the hungry and needy, and cover the naked with thy clothes.  Ordain thy bread and wine upon the sepulture of a righteous man, but eat it not ne drink it with sinners.  Ask and demand counsel of a wise man.  Always and in every time bless God and desire of him that he address thy ways, and let all thy counsels abide in him.  I tell to thee, my son, that when thou wert a little child I lent to Gabael ten besants of silver, dwelling in Rages the city of Medes, upon an obligation, which I have by me.  And therefore