1
Now as they proceeded on their way they came at evening to the Tigris river and camped there.
2
Then the young man went down to wash himself. A fish leaped up from the river and would have swallowed the young man;
3
and the angel said to him, "Catch the fish." So the young man seized the fish and threw it up on the land.
4
Then the angel said to him, "Cut open the fish and take the heart and liver and gall and put them away safely."
5
So the young man did as the angel told him; and they roasted and ate the fish. And they both continued on their way until they came near to Ecbatana.
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