¹ As they were approaching Kaserein, which is across from Nineveh,

² Raphael said, “You know in what condition we left your father.

³ Let us run ahead of your wife and prepare the house while they are coming.”

⁴ So they both went together, and he said to him, “Take the gall in your hands.” And the dog went along behind them.

⁵ Now Anna sat looking intently down the road her son had taken.

⁶ And she caught sight of him coming and said to his father, “Behold! your son is coming, and so is the man who went with him!”

Tobit’s Sight Restored

⁷ And Raphael said to Tobias before he drew near to his father, “I know that his eyes will be opened.

⁸ Smear the fish’s gall into his eyes, and the medicine will cause the white films to contract and peel away from his eyes, and your father will look up and see the light.”

⁹ Then Anna ran up and fell upon her son’s neck and said to him, “I have seen you, child; from now on I am ready to die.” And she wept.

¹⁰ And Tobit got up, stumbling over his feet, and emerged from the door of the courtyard. And Tobias went up to him

¹¹ with the fish’s gall in his hand, and he blew into his eyes and took hold of him and said, “Take heart, father”, and he put the medicine on him, and Tobit allowed him.

¹² And he peeled away the white films1 from the corners of his eyes with his two hands. Then he fell on his neck

¹⁴ and he wept and said to him, “I see you, child, the light of my eyes!” And he said, “Blessed is God, and blessed is his great name, and blessed are all his holy angels. May your great name be over us, and may all your angels be blessed through all the ages.

¹⁵ For he chastised me, and behold! I see my son Tobias!” And Tobias went in rejoicing and blessing God with his full voice, and Tobias reported to his father that his journey had prospered, and that he recovered the silver, and how he took Sarah the daughter of Raguel as his wife; and he said, “Behold! She has arrived and is at the very gate of Nineveh!”

¹⁶ Then Tobit went out to the gate of Nineveh to meet his daughter-in-law, rejoicing and blessing God. When the Ninevites saw him as he was making his way and crossing through in his full strength with no one guiding him by the hand, they were amazed.

¹⁷ And Tobit acknowledged before them that God had shown him mercy and opened his eyes. And Tobit came near to Sarah the wife of his son Tobias and blessed her and said to her, “May you enter safe and sound, daughter! Blessed is your God who has led you to us, daughter, and blessed is your father and your mother, and blessed is Tobias my son, and blessed are you, daughter. Come into your home safe and sound, with blessing and joy. Come in, daughter!” There was joy that day among all the Judeans who were in Nineveh.

¹⁸ And his nephews Ahikar and Nadab came to Tobit, rejoicing.

¹⁹ The wedding was celebrated with joy for seven days, and many gifts were bestowed on them.