16. Blessed are you, for you have made me happy;what I feared did not happen.Rather you have dealt with usaccording to your abundant mercy.
17. Blessed are you, for you have shown mercytoward two only children.Grant them, Master, mercy and protection,and bring their lives to fulfillmentwith happiness and mercy.”
18. Then Raguel told his servants to fill in the grave before dawn.
19. He asked his wife to bake many loaves of bread; he himself went out to the herd and brought two steers and four rams, which he ordered to be slaughtered. So they began to prepare the feast.