1. Then Tobit called his son to him, and he said to him, "What are we able to give to this holy man, who accompanied you?"
2. Tobias, answering, said to his father: "Father, what wages shall we give him? And what could be worthy of his benefits?
3. He led me and he brought me back safely. He received the money from Gabael. He caused me to have my wife. And he confined the demon away from her. He caused joy to her parents. Myself, he rescued from being devoured by the fish. As for you, he also caused you to see the light of heaven. And so, we have been filled with all good things through him. What could we possibly give to him that would be worthy of these things?
4. But I implore you, my father, to ask him if he would perhaps deign to take for himself half of all the things that have been brought."
5. And calling him, the father especially, and the son, they took him aside. And they began to petition him, so that he would deign to accept ownership of one half part of all things that they had brought.
6. Then he said to them privately: "Bless the God of heaven, and confess to him in the sight of all who live, for he has acted in his mercy toward you.
7. For it is good to conceal the secret of a king, just as it is also honorable to reveal and to confess the works of God.