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Then the angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt.
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Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock.
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For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God.
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So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them,
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And Tobias said: Lord God of our father, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee.
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Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.
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And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.
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Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.
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And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.
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For he said: Lest perhaps it may have happened to him, in like manner as it did to the other seven husbands, that went in unto her.
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And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel went back to his wife, and said to her: