1 Soothly when Tobias made tarry-ing for cause of his weddings [or by reason of the bridals], Tobit his father was heavied or anguished, and he said to his wife, Why guessest thou, that my son tarrieth thus, either why he is withholden there or he is held there thus long?

2 Guesseth thou, whether Gabael is dead, and no man yieldeth to him the money?

3 Forsooth he began to be sorry full much, and Anna, his wife, with him; and both began to weep together, for that their son turned not home again to them in the day set.

4 Then his mother wept with tears without remedy [or with unremediable tears], and said, Alas to me! my son, why sent we thee to go a pilgrimage, thou art the light of our eyes, the staff* For as a sick man is sustained by a staff, so father and mother in eld age owe to be sustained of sons. of our eld age, the solace of our life, and the hope of our heirs or after-comers?

5 We had all things together in thee alone, and we ought not to have [or should not] let thee go from us.

6 To whom Tobit said, Be still, and do not thou be troubled [or disturbed]; our son is whole and safe; for that man is faithful enough, with whom we sent him forth.

7 But his mother might not be comforted in any manner, but each day she went out, and looked about after him, and compassed all the ways, by which the hope of his again-coming seemed to her, to see him coming afar, if it might be done.

8 And soothly Raguel said to the husband of his daughter [or his son-in-law], Dwell thou here, or Abide thou here with me, and I shall send a messenger to tell of thine health to Tobit, thy father.

9 To whom Tobias said, I know, that my father and my mother reckon now [or now count] the days of mine absence from them, and their spirit is tormented in them.

10 And when Raguel had prayed Tobias with many words, and he would not hear Raguel or consent to him by, or for, any reason, Raguel betook to him Sarah, and half the part of all his chattel or all his goods, [or all his substance], in servants, and damsels or handmaidens, in sheep and camels, and in kine, and in much money; and he delivered from him-self Tobias safe and joying, and said,

11 The holy angel of the Lord be in your way, and bring you sound home, and find ye all things rightfully [or right] about your father and your mother,

12 and mine eyes see your sons, before that I die. And the father and mother took their daughter, and kissed her, and let her go forth with Tobias her husband,

13 and admonished her to honour the father and mother of her husband [or her father- and mother-in-law], and to love her husband, and to rule well her meine, and to govern wisely her house, and to show herself unreprovable.