Tobías · Versión Católica de Dominio Público
Tobías 8 Versión Católica de Dominio Público
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1 In truth, after they had dined, they introduced the young man to her.
1 When they had finished their supper, they brought Tobias in to her.
2 And so, Tobias, remembering the word of the Angel, took part of the liver from his bag, and he placed it over the live coals.
2 But as he went, he remembered the words of Raphael, and took the ashes of the incense, and put the heart and the liver of the fish on them, and made smoke with them.
3 Then the Angel Raphael caught the demon, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt.
3 When the demon smelled that smell, it fled into the uppermost parts of Egypt, and the angel bound him.
4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and he said to her: “Sarah, get up and let us pray to God this day, and tomorrow, and the following day. For, during these three nights, we are being joined to God. And then, when the third night has passed, we ourselves will be joined together.
4 But after they were both shut in together, Tobias rose up from the bed, and said, “Sister, arise, and let’s pray that the Lord may have mercy on us.”
5 For certainly, we are the children of the saints, and we must not be joined together in such a manner as the heathens, who are ignorant of God.”
5 And Tobias began to say, “Blessed are you, O God of our fathers, and blessed is your holy and glorious name forever. Let the heavens bless you, and all your creatures.
6 And so, rising up together, they both prayed earnestly, at the same time, that health might be given to them.
6 You made Adam, and gave him Eve his wife for a helper and support. From them came the seed of men. You said, it is not good that the man should be alone. Let’s make him a helper like him.
7 And Tobias said: “Lord, the God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth bless you, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all your creatures that are in them.
7 And now, O Lord, I take not this my sister for lust, but in truth. Command that I may find mercy and grow old with her.”
8 You formed Adam from the mud of the earth, and you gave Eve to him as a helper.
8 She said with him, “Amen.” And they both slept that night.
9 And now, O Lord, you know that I take my sister in conjugal union, not by reason of worldly pleasure, but solely for the love of posterity, in which your name may be blessed forever and ever.”
9 Raguel arose, and went and dug a grave,
10 Sarah likewise said, “Be merciful to us, O Lord, be merciful to us. And let us both grow old together in health.”
10 saying, “Lest he also should die.”
11 And it happened, about the time of the rooster’s crowing, that Raguel ordered his servants to be summoned, and they went out with him together to dig a grave.
11 And Raguel came into his house,
12 For he said, “Lest perhaps, in the same way, it may have happened to him, as it did also to the other seven men who approached her.”
12 and said to Edna his wife, “Send one of the maidservants, and let them see if he is alive. If not, we will bury him, and no man will know it.”
13 And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel returned to his wife, and he said to her,
13 So the maidservant opened the door, and went in, and found them both sleeping,
14 “Send one of your maids, and let her see if he is dead, so that I may bury him before the dawn of day.”
14 and came out, and told them that he was alive.
15 And so, she sent one of her maidservants, who entered the bedroom and discovered them safe and unharmed, sleeping both together.
15 Then Raguel blessed God, saying, “Blessed are you, O God, with all pure and holy blessing! Let your saints bless you, and all your creatures! Let all your angels and your elect bless you forever!
16 And returning, she reported the good news. And they blessed the Lord: Raguel, especially, and his wife Anna.
16 Blessed are you, because you have made me glad; and it has not happened to me as I suspected; but you have dealt with us according to your great mercy.
17 And they said: “We bless you, Lord God of Israel, because it has not happened in the way that we thought it might.
17 Blessed are you, because you have had mercy on two that were the only begotten children of their parents. Show them mercy, O Lord. Fulfill their life in health with gladness and mercy.
18 For you have acted in your mercy toward us, and you have excluded from us the enemy who pursued us.
18 He commanded his servants to fill the grave.
19 Moreover, you have had compassion on two only children. Make them, O Lord, able to bless you more fully and to offer you a sacrifice of your praise and of their health, so that all peoples everywhere may know that you alone are God in all the earth.”
19 He kept the wedding feast for them fourteen days.
20 And immediately Raguel instructed his servants to refill the pit, which they had made, before daylight.
20 Before the days of the wedding feast were finished, Raguel sware to him, that he should not depart till the fourteen days of the wedding feast were fulfilled;
21 And then he told his wife to make ready a feast, and to prepare all the provisions that are necessary for those who undertake a journey.
21 and that then he should take half of his goods, and go in safety to his father; and the rest, said he, when my wife and I die.
22 Likewise, he caused two fat cows and four rams to be killed, and a banquet to be prepared for all his neighbors and every one of his friends.
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23 And Raguel pleaded with Tobias to delay with him for two weeks.
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24 Moreover, of all the things that Raguel possessed, he gave one half part to Tobias, and he made a writing, so that the half that remained should also pass into the ownership of Tobias, after their deaths.
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And now, O Lord, Thou knowest that I take not this my sister for lust, but uprightly: therefore have pity on us, O Lord." Chapter 19 — Wicked Men Judge Others by Themselves
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)