Tob 3:1 

Then I being grieved did weep, and in my sorrow prayed, 

saying, 

Tob 3:2 

O Lord, thou art just, and all thy works and all thy ways are 

mercy and truth, and thou judgest truly and justly for ever. 

Tob 3:3 

Remember me, and look on me, punish me not for my sins and 

ignorances, and the sins of mg fathers, who have sinned before 

thee: 

Tob 3:4 

For they obeyed not thy commandments: wherefore thou hast 

delivered us for a spoil, and unto captivity, and unto death, 

and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we 

are dispersed. 

Tob 3:5 

And now thy judgments are many and true: deal with me 

according to my sins and my fathers': because we have not kept 

thy commandments, neither have walked in truth before thee. 

Tob 3:6 

Now therefore deal with me as seemeth best unto thee, and 

command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be dissolved, 

and become earth: for it is profitable for me to die rather than 

to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and have much 

sorrow: command therefore that I may now be delivered out of 

this distress, and go into the everlasting place: turn not thy 

face away from me. 

Tob 3:7 

It came to pass the same day, that in Ecbatane a city of 

Media Sara the daughter of Raguel was also reproached by her 

father's maids; 

Tob 3:8 

Because that she had been married to seven husbands, whom 

Asmodeus the evil spirit had killed, before they had lain with 

her. Dost thou not know, said they, that thou hast strangled 

thine husbands? thou hast had already seven husbands, neither 

wast thou named after any of them. 

Tob 3:9 

Wherefore dost thou beat us for them? if they be dead, go thy 

ways after them, let us never see of thee either son or 

daughter. 

Tob 3:10 

Whe she heard these things, she was very sorrowful, so that 

she thought to have strangled herself; and she said, I am the 

only daughter of my father, and if I do this, it shall be a 

reproach unto him, and I shall bring his old age with sorrow 

unto the grave. 

Tob 3:11 

Then she prayed toward the window, and said, Blessed art 

thou, O Lord my God, and thine holy and glorious name is blessed 

and honourable for ever: let all thy works praise thee for 

ever. 

Tob 3:12 

And now, O Lord, I set I mine eyes and my face toward thee, 

Tob 3:13 

And say, Take me out of the earth, that I may hear no more 

the reproach. 

Tob 3:14 

Thou knowest, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man, 

Tob 3:15 

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, neither hath he any child to be his heir, neither any 

near kinsman, nor any son of his alive, to whom I may keep 

myself for a wife: my seven husbands are already dead; and why 

should I live? but if it please not thee that I should die, 

command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, that 

I hear no more reproach. 

Tob 3:16 

So the prayers of them both were heard before the majesty of 

the great God. 

Tob 3:17 

And Raphael was sent to heal them both, that is, to scale 

away the whiteness of Tobit's eyes, and to give Sara the 

daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to 

bind Asmodeus the evil spirit; because she belonged to Tobias by 

right of inheritance. The selfsame time came Tobit home, and 

entered into his house, and Sara the daughter of Raguel came 

down from her upper chamber.