1Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me.
2But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth not me, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither.
3Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.
4But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.
5Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk.
6And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
7But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?
8And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.
9And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father.
10Then Tobias going in told all these things to his father. Upon which his father being in admiration, desired that he would come in unto him.
11So going in he saluted him, and said: Joy be to thee always.
12And Tobias said: What manner of joy shall be to me, who sit in darkness and see not the light of heaven?
13And the young man said to him: Be of good courage, thy cure from God is at hand.
14And Tobias said to him: Canst thou conduct my son to Gabelus at Rages, a city of the Medes? and when thou shalt return, I will pay thee thy hire.
15And the angel said to him: I will conduct him thither, and bring him back to thee.
16And Tobias said to him: I pray thee, tell me, of what family, or what tribe art thou?
17And Raphael the angel answered: Dost thou seek the family of him thou hirest, or the hired servant himself to go with thy son?
18But lest I should make thee uneasy, I am Azarias the son of the great Ananias.
19And Tobias answered: Thou art of a great family. But I pray thee be not angry that I desired to know thy family.
20And the angel said to him: I will lead thy son safe, and bring him to thee again safe.
21And Tobias answering, said: May you have a good journey, and God be with you in your way, and his angel accompany you.
22Then all things being ready, that were to be carried in their journey, Tobias bade his father and his mother farewell, and they set out both together.
23And when they were departed, his mother began to weep, and to say: Thou hast taken the staff of our old age, and sent him away from us.
24I wish the money for which thou hast sent him, had never been.
25For our poverty was sufficient for us, that we might account it as riches, that we saw our son.
26And Tobias said to her: Weep not, our son will arrive thither safe, and will return safe to us, and thy eyes shall see him.
27For I believe that the good angel of God doth accompany him, and doth order all things well that are done about him, so that he shall return to us with joy.
28At these words his mother ceased weeping, and held her peace.