Tobit 10:1-7

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Anxiety of the Parents

10 Now day by day Tobit kept counting how many days Tobias^[a] would need for going and for returning. And when the days had passed and his son did not appear,^{(A) 2} he said, “Is it possible that he has been detained? Or that Gabael has died, and there is no one to give him the money?” ³ And he began to worry. ⁴ His wife Anna said, “My son has perished and is no longer among the living.” And she began to weep and mourn for her son, saying, ⁵ “Woe to me, my child, the light of my eyes, that I let you make the journey.”^{(B) 6} But Tobit kept saying to her, “Be quiet and stop worrying, my sister; he is all right. Something must have happened to delay them. The man who went with him is trustworthy and is one of our own kin. Do not grieve for him, my sister; he will be here soon.” ⁷ She answered him, “Be quiet yourself! Stop trying to deceive me! My son has perished.” She would rush out every day and watch the road her son had taken and would heed no one.^[b] When the sun had set she would go in and mourn and weep all night long, getting no sleep.

Tobias and Sarah Start for Home

Now when the fourteen days of the wedding celebration had ended that Raguel had sworn to observe for his daughter, Tobias came to him and said, “Send me back, for I know that my father and mother do not believe that they will see me again. So I beg of you, father, to let me go so that I may return to my own father. I have already explained to you how I left him.”^(C)