Tobit 8:17-19

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷Blessed are you because you had compassion
    on two only children.
Be merciful to them, O Master, and keep them safe;
    bring their lives to fulfillment
    in happiness and mercy.”

¹⁸Then he ordered his servants to fill in the grave before daybreak.

Wedding Feast

¹⁹After this he asked his wife to bake many loaves of bread; and he went out to the herd and brought two steers and four rams and ordered them to be slaughtered. So they began to make preparations.

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