Tobit 5:5-7

Good News Translation

I am an Israelite, Raphael answered,
one of your distant relatives, and I have come here to Nineveh to find work.

Do you know the way to Media? Tobias asked.

⁶ Yes, I do, Raphael replied.
I have been there many times, and I know all the roads well. I used to stay with our relative Gabael, who lives there in the town of Rages.^[a] It takes at least two days to travel there from Ecbatana, the capital city, because Rages is up in the mountains.

⁷ Then Tobias said to Raphael,
    Wait here for me, my friend, while I go in and tell my father. I would like for you to travel with me, and I will pay you for the journey.