2. Raphael said: “You know how we left your father.
3. Let us hurry on ahead of your wife to prepare the house while they are still on the way.”
4. So both went on ahead together, and Raphael said to him, “Take the gall in your hand!” And the dog ran along behind them.
5. Meanwhile, Anna sat watching the road by which her son was to come.
6. When she saw him coming, she called to his father, “Look, your son is coming, and the man who traveled with him!”
7. Raphael said to Tobiah before he came near to his father: “I know that his eyes will be opened.
8. Apply the fish gall to his eyes, and the medicine will make the white scales shrink and peel off from his eyes; then your father will have sight again and will see the light of day.”
9. Then Anna ran up to her son, embraced him, and said to him, “Now that I have seen you again, son, I am ready to die!” And she sobbed aloud.
10. Tobit got up and stumbled out through the courtyard gate to meet his son. Tobiah went up to him
11. with the fish gall in his hand and blew into his eyes. Holding him firmly, he said, “Courage, father.” Then he applied the medicine to his eyes, and it made them sting.