Tobit 10:7-9

New Catholic Bible

⁷ But she retorted: “Let me alone and do not try to deceive me! My child has perished.” Each day she would go out and maintain her watch on the road her son had taken, and she would listen to no one. At sunset she would return home and mourn and weep throughout the night, unable to sleep.

The Return of Tobiah

Tobiah Insists on Returning Home.^[a] After the fourteen days for the wedding celebration that Raguel had sworn to hold for his daughter had come to an end, Tobiah approached him and said, “Now please let me depart, for I am positive that my father and mother do not believe that they will ever see me again. So I beseech you, father, that you allow me to return home now to my father Tobit. I have already explained to you the condition in which I left him.”

⁸ Raguel replied, “My child, stay with me, and I will send messengers to your father to give him news of you.” ⁹ But Tobiah insisted, “No, I beg you to let me return home to my father.”