Bishops(i)
1 Now after that they had supped, they brought the young man in to her.
2 Then thought Tobias vpon the wordes of the angel, and toke out of his bagge a peece of, the lyuer of the fishe, and layed it vpon the hotte coales.
3 So the angell Raphael tooke holde of the deuil, and sent him away, & bound him in the wildernesse of the hygher Egypt.
4 Then spake Tobias vnto the virgin, and saide: Up Sara, let vs make our prayer vnto God to day, to morow, and ouermorow: For these three nightes wyl we reconcile our selues with God, and when the third holy night is past, we shall ioyne together in the due tie of mariage.
5 For we are the children of holy men, and we may not come together as the heathen that know not God.
6 Then stoode they vp both together, and besought God earnestly that he would preserue them.
7 And Tobias saide: O Lorde God of our fathers, praysed be thou of heauen and earth, of the sea, welles, & fluddes, and of al thy creatures that be therein.
8 Thou madest Adam of the moulde of the earth, and gauest him Eua for an helper.
9 And now Lorde thou knowest that it is not because of voluptuousnes that I take this sister of myne to wyfe, but onely for the loue of children, in whom thy name may be blessed for euer.
10 And Sara saide: Haue mercie vpon vs O Lorde, haue mercy vpon vs, and let vs both come whole and sounde together to a good age.
11 And about the cocke crowing, it came to passe, that Raguel called his seruautes:
12 And they went with him to make a graue.
13 For he saide: It is chaunced nowe vnto him peraduenture as it did vnto the other seuen men that went in vnto her.
14 Now when they had made the graue, Raguel came againe to his wyfe, and saide vnto her: Send one of thy maydens to loke if he be dead, that I may bury him afore it be light day.
15 So she sent a mayden to see: which when she came into the chamber, found them whole and founde, sleeping together.
16 And so she came againe, and brought good tidinges: Then Raguel and Anna his wyfe praysed the Lorde,
17 And saide: Praysed be thou O Lorde God of Israel, that it is not happened vnto vs as we thought.
18 For thou hast dealt mercifully with vs, and put away from vs the enemie that persecuted vs,
19 And hast shewed mercy vnto yonder two the onely borne children of their parentes: O Lorde, cause them to magnifie thee more perfectly, and to offer the sacrifice of thy prayse & of their health: that all people may knowe that thou onely art God in all the earth.
20 And immediatly Raguel commaunded his seruauntes to fyll the graue that they had made, with earth, afore it was light,
21 And bade his wyfe prepare a feaste, & to make redie all thinges that were necessary for meate, to such as went by the way.
22 He caused two fat kine also and foure weathers to be slaine, and meates to be prepared for all his neighbours and freindes.
23 And Raguel charged Tobias to remayne with him two weekes.
24 As for all the good that he had, he gaue Tobias the halfe of it, and made this writing, that the halfe which remayned, should fall vnto Tobias after their death.