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¶The .v. Chapter.
2 Tobias is sent to Rages. 5 He meeteth with the angell Raphael which did con∣duct him.
[unspec A] 1 THen aunswered Tobi∣as his father, and said: Father, all that thou hast commaunded me wyl I doe, and that di∣ligently.
2 But how I shall re∣quire this money I can not tell, nei∣ther doth he knowe me, nor I him: What token shall I geue him? And as for the way thyther, I neuer knew it.
3 Then his father aunswered him, and saide, I haue his hand writing by me: which when thou shewest him, imme∣diatly he shall pay thee.
4 But go thy way nowe and get thee some faithful man to go with thee for an hyre, that thou mayst receaue the mo∣ney while I am yet liuing.
5 Then went Tobias out, and vpon the streate he founde a fayre young man standing, girded vp, and as it were one redie to take his iourney.
6 And he knewe not that it was an an∣gell of God, but saluted him, and sayde: From whence art thou, thou good young man?
[unspec B] 7 He aunswered: Of the children of Isra∣el. And Tobias said vnto him: Know∣est thou the way that leadeth vnto the countrey of the Medes?
8 He aunswered: I knowe it well, & all those * 1.1 streates haue I gone oft times, and haue lodged with our brother Ga∣belus that dwelleth in Rages a citie of the Medes, which lyeth vpon the moūt Ecbatanis.
9 Tobias saide vnto him: I pray thee tary for me, till I haue tolde my father these thinges.
10 Then went Tobias in, and tolde his father all: At the which his father mar∣ueyled, and prayed that he woulde come in vnto him.
11 Now when he came in, he saluted him, and saide: Ioy be with thee for euer∣more.
12 And olde Tobias saide: what ioy can I haue that sit here in darkenesse, and see not the light of heauen?
13 The young man saide vnto him: Be of good cheare, God shall helpe thee shortly.
14 And Tobias saide vnto him: Canst thou bring my sonne to Gabelus, vnto [unspec C] the citie of Rages in Medea: and when thou commest againe, I shall pay thee thy hyre?
15 And the angell saide vnto him: I shall leade thy sonne, and bring him to thee againe.
16 Then Tobias aunswered him: Tell me I pray thee, of what house or of what tribe art thou?
17 The angel Raphael saide vnto him: Seekest thou after the kinred of an hireling, or an hired man him selfe for thy sonne to go with him?
18 But that I make thee not carefull, I am Azarias the sonne of great Hana∣mas.
19 And Tobias aunswered, Thou art come of a great kinred: but I pray thee be not displeased that I desire to know thy kindred.
20 The angell said vnto him: Thy sonne shall I leade foorth safely, and bryng [unspec D] him whole sounde to thee againe.
21 Then aunswered Tobias, and saide: well, go on your way, and God be in your iourney, and his angell beare you company.
22 So when they had prepared all thinges that they woulde take with them in their iourney, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell: and they went on their way both together.
23 Nowe when they were gone, his mo∣ther began to weepe, & saide: The staffe of our age hast thou taken away, and sent him from vs.
24 Woulde God that money had neuer ben, for the which thou hast sent him a∣way.
25 For our pouertie was sufficient for vs, why we shoulde haue counted it ry∣chesse, that we saw our sonne here.
26 Then saide Tobias vnto her: Weepe not, our sonne shall go safely and come to vs againe sounde, and thyne eyes shall see him.
27 For I trust that the good angell of God shall beare him company, and or∣der well all the thinges that he doth,