1. Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and said to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:
2. If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a worthy return for thy care.
3. However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come to my wedding.
4. For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay one day more, his soul will be afflicted.
5. And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I cannot despise.