12. For he said, "Lest perhaps, in the same way, it may have happened to him, as it did also to the other seven men who approached her."
13. And when they had prepared the pit, Raguel returned to his wife, and he said to her,
14. "Send one of your maids, and let her see if he is dead, so that I may bury him before the dawn of day."
15. And so, she sent one of her maidservants, who entered the bedroom and discovered them safe and unharmed, sleeping both together.
16. And returning, she reported the good news. And they blessed the Lord: Raguel, especially, and his wife Anna.
17. And they said: "We bless you, Lord God of Israel, because it has not happened in the way that we thought it might.
18. For you have acted in your mercy toward us, and you have excluded from us the enemy who pursued us.