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.
8. Prayer with fasting is good, and almsgiving is better than hiding away gold in storage.
9. For almsgiving delivers from death, and the same is what purges sins and makes one able to find mercy and everlasting life.
10. But those who commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul.
11. Therefore, I reveal the truth to you, and I will not hide the explanation from you.
12. When you prayed with tears, and buried the dead, and left behind your dinner, and hid the dead by day in your house, and buried them by night: I offered your prayer to the Lord.
13. And because you were acceptable to God, it was necessary for you to be tested by trials.
14. And now, the Lord has sent me to cure you, and to free Sarah, your son's wife, from the demon.
15. For I am the Angel Raphael, one of seven, who stand before the Lord."
16. And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear, they fell upon the ground on their face.