1. Therefore, when Tobit considered that his prayer was heard, so that he might be able to die, he called his son Tobias to him.
2. And he said to him: "My son, hear the words of my mouth, and set them, like a foundation, in your heart.
3. When God will receive my soul, bury my body. And you shall honor your mother, all the days of her life.
4. For you are obliged to be mindful of what great perils she suffered because of you in her womb.