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However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come to my wedding.
1
Then Tobias called the angel to him, whom he took to be a man, and said to him: Brother Azarias, I pray thee hearken to my words:
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If I should give myself to be thy servant I should not make a worthy return for thy care.
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However, I beseech thee, to take with thee beasts and servants, and to go to Gabelus to Rages the city of the Medes: and to restore to him his note of hand, and receive of him the money, and desire him to come to my wedding.
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For thou knowest that my father numbereth the days: and if I stay one day more, his soul will be afflicted.
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And indeed thou seest how Raguel hath adjured me, whose adjuring I cannot despise.