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O Lord, you know that I have remained pure; no man has touched me; (Tobit 3, 14)
I have not dishonoured your name or my father's name in this land of exile. I am my father's only daughter, he has no other child as heir; he has no brother at his side, nor has he any kinsman left for whom I ought to keep myself. I have lost seven husbands already; why should I live any longer? If it does not please you to take my life, then look on me with pity; I can no longer bear to hear myself defamed. (Tobit 3, 15)
This time the prayer of each of them found favour before the glory of God, (Tobit 3, 16)
and Raphael was sent to bring remedy to them both. He was to take the white spots from the eyes of Tobit, so that he might see God's light with his own eyes; and he was to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel as bride to Tobias son of Tobit, and to rid her of Asmodeus, that worst of demons. for it was to Tobias before all other suitors that she belonged by right. Tobit was coming back from the courtyard into the house at the same moment as Sarah the daughter of Raguel was coming down from the upper room. (Tobit 3, 17)
He summoned his son Tobias and told him, 'When I die, give me an honourable burial. Honour your mother, and never abandon her all the days of your life. Do all that she wants, and give her no reason for sorrow. (Tobit 4, 3)
Remember, my child, all the risks she ran for your sake when you were in her womb. And when she dies, bury her at my side in the same grave. (Tobit 4, 4)
'My child, be faithful to the Lord all your days. Never entertain the will to sin or to transgress his laws. Do good works all the days of your life, never follow ways that are not upright; (Tobit 4, 5)
for if you act in truthfulness, you will be successful in all your actions, as everyone is who practises what is upright. (Tobit 4, 6)
'Set aside part of your goods for almsgiving. Never turn your face from the poor and God will never turn his from you. (Tobit 4, 7)
Measure your alms by what you have; if you have much, give more; if you have little, do not be afraid to give less in alms. (Tobit 4, 8)
So doing, you will lay up for yourself a great treasure for the day of necessity. (Tobit 4, 9)
'My child, avoid all loose conduct. Choose a wife of your father's stock. Do not take a foreign wife outside your father's tribe, because we are the children of the prophets. Remember Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, our ancestors from the beginning. All of them took wives from their own kindred, and they were blessed in their children, and their race will inherit the earth. (Tobit 4, 12)
