14. “You know, Master, that I am cleanof any defilement with a man.
15. I have never sullied my own nameor my father’s name in the land of my captivity.“I am my father’s only daughter,and he has no other child to be his heir,Nor does he have a kinsman or close relativewhose wife I should wait to become.Seven husbands of mine have already died.Why then should I live any longer?But if it does not please you, Lord, to take my life,look favorably upon me and have pity on me,that I may never again listen to such reproaches!”
16. At that very time, the prayer of both of them was heard in the glorious presence of God.
17. So Raphael was sent to heal them both: to remove the white scales from Tobit’s eyes, so that he might again see with his own eyes God’s light; and to give Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, as a wife to Tobiah, the son of Tobit, and to rid her of the wicked demon Asmodeus. For it fell to Tobiah’s lot to claim her before any others who might wish to marry her.At that very moment Tobit turned from the courtyard to his house, and Raguel’s daughter Sarah came down from the upstairs room.