12. And now, Lord, I have set mine eyes and my face toward you:
13. command that I be released from the earth, and that I no more hear reproach.
14. You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
15. and that I never polluted my name, nor the name of my father, in the land of my captivity: I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that shall be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him: seven husbands of mine are dead already; why should I live? And if it pleases you not to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.
16. And the prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
17. Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. The selfsame time did Tobit return and enter into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.