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When they came near to Kaserin, which is opposite Nineveh, Raphael said,
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"You are aware of how we left your father.
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Let us run ahead of your wife and prepare the house while they are still on the way."
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As they went on together Raphael said to him, "Have the gall ready." And the dog went along behind them.
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Meanwhile Anna sat looking intently down the road by which her son would come.
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When she caught sight of him coming, she said to his father, "Look, your son is coming, and the man who went with him!"
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Raphael said to Tobias, before he had approached his father, "I know that his eyes will be opened.
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Smear the gall of the fish on his eyes; the medicine will make the white films shrink and peel off from his eyes, and your father will regain his sight and see the light."
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Then Anna ran up to her son and threw her arms around him, saying, "Now that I have seen you, my child, I am ready to die." And she wept.
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Then Tobit got up and came stumbling out through the courtyard door. Tobias went up to him,