The Homecoming and the Healing of Tobit

1 And when they drew near to Caeserin which is over against Nineveh, 2 Raphael said, You know how we did leave your father: 3 let us run forward before your wife, and prepare the house while they are coming. 4 And they went both together; and he said to him, Take in your hands the gall. And the dog went with them, behind him and her son. 5 And Anna sat watching the road by which her son would come. 6 And she caught sight of him coming, and said to his father, Behold, your son comes, and the man that went with him. 7 And Raphael said to Tobias before he drew near to his father, I know that his eyes will be opened;⁠a 8 stuff the gall of the fish into his eyes and the medicament will draw up and scale off the white films from his eyes, and your father will see again and behold the light. 9 And she ran, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, I have seen you, my child; hereafter I can die. And she wept. 10 And Tobit rose and stumbled with his feet and went forth toward the door of the porch. 11 And Tobias went towards him with the gall of the fish in his hand; and he blew into his eyes, and took hold of him and said, Courage, father! 12 And Tobias threw the medicament upon him, and gave it him; 13 and he peeled off the white films with both his hands from the corners of his eyes. 14 And he fell upon his neck, and wept, and said to him, I see you, child, the light of my eyes. And he said, Blessed is God, and blessed is his great name, and blessed are all his holy angels. May his great name be blessed to all ages; 15 for he did chastise me, and behold, I see my son Tobias. And Tobias went in rejoicing and blessing God in his whole body, and Tobias showed his father that his journey had prospered and that he had brought the money, and how he had taken Sarah the daughter of Raguel to wife; and, Behold, she is at hand and is near the gate of Nineveh. 16 And Tobit went out to the gate of Nineveh to meet his daughter-in-law, rejoicing and blessing God. And when the men of Nineveh saw him go and pass on with all his strength and not led by the hand by anyone, they marvelled. 17 And Tobit gave thanks before them, because God had showed mercy on him, and because he had opened his eyes. And Tobit came near to Sarah the wife of Tobias his son, and he blessed her, and said to her, Welcome, daughter; and blessed is your God which has brought you to us, daughter, and blessed is your father and blessed is Tobias my son and blessed are you, daughter; welcome, daughter, to your home, with blessing and joy, welcome, daughter. On this day there was joy to all the Jews which were at Nineveh. 18 And Ahikar and Nadab his cousin came rejoicing to Tobit.