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Tobit 5
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| 5:1 Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me. |
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| 5:2 But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth me not, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither. |
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| 5:3 Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it. |
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| 5:4 But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live. |
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| 5:5 Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk. |
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"Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded."
Angels are so darned good looking!
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| 5:6 And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
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| 5:7 But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes? |
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| 5:8 And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at
Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana. |
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| 5:9 And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father. |
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| 5:10 Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto him. |
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| 5:11 So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always. |
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| 5:12 And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness, and see not the light of heaven? |
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| 5:13 And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from God is at hand. |
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| 5:14 And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return,
I will pay thee thy hire. |
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| 5:15 And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring him back to thee. |
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| 5:16 And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or what tribe art thou? |
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| 5:17 And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son? |
 (5:17-18) "Raphael the angel answered ... I am Azarias."
Is it wrong to lie?
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| 5:18 But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias.
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| 5:19 And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee be not angry that I desired to know thy family. |
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| 5:20 And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee again safe. |
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| 5:21 And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you. |
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| 5:22 Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set out both together. |
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| 5:23 And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us. |
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| 5:24 I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been. |
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| 5:25 For poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son. |
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| 5:26 And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him. |
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| 5:27 For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well
that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy. |
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"I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him."
Tobias Sr. believes that a good angel will accompany and protect his son on his trip.
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| 5:28 At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.
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