6. And so, rising up together, they both prayed earnestly, at the same time, that health might be given to them.
7. And Tobias said: "Lord, the God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth bless you, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all your creatures that are in them.
8. You formed Adam from the mud of the earth, and you gave Eve to him as a helper.
9. And now, O Lord, you know that I take my sister in conjugal union, not by reason of worldly pleasure, but solely for the love of posterity, in which your name may be blessed forever and ever."
10. Sarah likewise said, "Be merciful to us, O Lord, be merciful to us. And let us both grow old together in health."
11. And it happened, about the time of the rooster's crowing, that Raguel ordered his servants to be summoned, and they went out with him together to dig a grave.
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.