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Then Tobias answered his father, and said: I will do all things, father, which thou hast commanded me.
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But how I shall get this money, I cannot tell; he knoweth me not, and I know not him: what token shall I give him? nor did I ever know the way which leadeth thither.
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Then his father answered him, and said: I have a note of his hand with me, which when thou shalt shew him, he will presently pay it.
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But go now, and seek thee out some faithful man, to go with thee for his hire: that thou mayst receive it, while I yet live.
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Then Tobias going forth, found a beautiful young man, standing girded, and as it were ready to walk.
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And not knowing that he was an angel of God, he saluted him, and said: From whence art thou, good young man?
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But he answered: Of the children of Israel. And Tobias said to him: Knowest thou the way that leadeth to the country of the Medes?
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And he answered: I know it: and I have often walked through all the ways thereof, and I have abode with Gabelus our brother, who dwelleth at Rages a city of the Medes, which is situate in the mount of Ecbatana.
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And Tobias said to him: Stay for me, I beseech thee, till I tell these same things to my father.