4. Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and he said to her: "Sarah, get up and let us pray to God this day, and tomorrow, and the following day. For, during these three nights, we are being joined to God. And then, when the third night has passed, we ourselves will be joined together.
5. For certainly, we are the children of the saints, and we must not be joined together in such a manner as the heathens, who are ignorant of God."
6. And so, rising up together, they both prayed earnestly, at the same time, that health might be given to them.
7. And Tobias said: "Lord, the God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth bless you, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all your creatures that are in them.
8. You formed Adam from the mud of the earth, and you gave Eve to him as a helper.
9. And now, O Lord, you know that I take my sister in conjugal union, not by reason of worldly pleasure, but solely for the love of posterity, in which your name may be blessed forever and ever."
10. Sarah likewise said, "Be merciful to us, O Lord, be merciful to us. And let us both grow old together in health."
11. And it happened, about the time of the rooster's crowing, that Raguel ordered his servants to be summoned, and they went out with him together to dig a grave.