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Tobit 11:3-14 World English Bible (WEB)

3. Let us run forward before your wife, and prepare the house.

4. But take in your hand the gall of the fish. And they went their way, and the dog went after them.

5. And Anna sat looking about toward the way for her son.

6. And she espied him coming, and said to his father, Behold, your son comes, and the man that went with him.

7. And Raphael said, I know, Tobias, that your father will open his eyes.

8. Do you therefore anoint his eyes with the gall, and being pricked therewith, he shall rub, and shall make the white films to fall away, and he shall see you.

9. And Anna ran to him, and fell upon the neck of her son, and said to him, I have seen you, my child; from henceforth I will die. And they wept both.

10. And Tobit went forth toward the door, and stumbled: but his son ran to him,

11. and took hold of his father: and he struck the gall on his father’s eyes, saying, Be of good cheer, my father.

12. But when his eyes began to hurt, he rubbed them;

13. and the white films scaled away from the corners of his eyes; and he saw his son, and fell upon his neck.

14. And he wept, and said, Blessed are you, O God, and blessed is your name for ever, and blessed are all your holy angels;