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Tobit 3:16 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God. "
Tobit 3:16
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14 You know, Lord, that I am pure from all sin with man,
15 and that I never polluted my name or the name of my father in the land of my captivity. I am the only daughter of my father, and he has no child that will be his heir, nor brother near him, nor son belonging to him, that I should keep myself for a wife to him. Seven husbands of mine are dead already. Why should I live? If it doesn’t please you to kill me, command some regard to be had of me, and pity taken of me, and that I hear no more reproach.”
16 The prayer of both was heard before the glory of the great God.
17 Raphael also was sent to heal them both, to scale away the white films from Tobit’s eyes, and to give Sarah the daughter of Raguel for a wife to Tobias the son of Tobit; and to bind Asmodaeus the evil spirit; because it belonged to Tobias that he should inherit her. At that very time, Tobit returned and entered into his house, and Sarah the daughter of Raguel came down from her upper chamber.
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Tobit 3:1
"I was grieved and wept, and prayed in sorrow, saying,"
Tobit 3:2
"“O Lord, you are righteous, and all your works and all your ways are mercy and truth, and you judge true and righteous judgment forever."
Tobit 3:3
"Remember me, and look at me. Don’t take vengeance on me for my sins and my ignorances, and the sins of my fathers who sinned before you."
Tobit 3:4
"For they disobeyed your commandments. You gave us as plunder, for captivity, for death, and for a proverb of reproach to all the nations among whom we are dispersed."
Tobit 3:5
"Now your judgments are many and true, that you should deal with me according to my sins and the sins of my fathers, because we didn’t keep your commandments, for we didn’t walk in truth before you."
Tobit 3:6
"Now deal with me according to that which is pleasing in your sight. Command my spirit to be taken from me, that I may be released, and become earth. For it is more profitable for me to die rather than to live, because I have heard false reproaches, and there is much sorrow in me. Command that I be released from my distress, now, and go to the everlasting place. Don’t turn your face away from me.”"
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