Tobit 14
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1SO Tobit made an end of praising God. 2And he was eight and fiftie yere olde, when he lost his sight, which was restored to him after eight yere, and he gaue almes, and he continued to feare the Lord God, and to praise him. 3And when he was verie aged, he called his sonne, and six of his sonnes sonnes, and said to him, My sonne, take thy children (for beholde, I am aged, and am ready to departe out of this life) 4Go into Media, my sonne: for I beleue that those things which Ionas the Prophet spake of Nineue, that it shal be destroied, & for a time peace shal rather be in Media, and that our brethren shal be scattred in the earth from that good land, & Ierusalem shal be desolate, and the House of God in in it shal be burned, and shal be desolate for a time. 5Yet againe God wil haue pitie on them and bring them againe into the land where they shal buylde a Temple, but not like to the first, vntil the times of that age be fulfilled, which being finished, they shal returne from euerie place out of captiuitie, & buylde vp Ierusalem gloriously, and the House of God shal be buylt in it for euer with a glorious buylding, as the Prophetes haue spoken thereof. 6And all nations shal turne, and feare the Lord God truely, & shal burye their idoles. 7So shal all nations praise the Lord, & his people shal confesse God, and the Lord shal exalte his people, and all those which loue the Lord in trueth and iustice, shal reioyce, & those also which shewe mercie to our brethren. 8And now, my sonne, departe out of Nineue, because that those things which the Prophet Ionas spake, shal surely come to passe. 9But kepe thou the Law, & the commandements, & shewe thy self merciful & iust that it may go wel with thee. 10And burye me honestly, and thy mother with me: but tarie no longer at Nineue. Remember, my sonne, how a man handled Achiacharus that broght him vp, how out of light he broght him into darkenes, and how he rewarded him againe: yet Achiacharus was saued, but the other had his rewarde: for he went downe into darkenes. Manasses gaue almes, & escaped the snare of death, which they had set for him, but Aman fell into the snare and perished. 11Wherefore now, my sonne, consider what almes doeth, and how righteousnes doeth deliuer. When he had said these things, he gaue vp the gost in the bed, being an hundreth and eight and fiftie yere olde, and he buryed him honorably. 12And when Anna was dead, he buryed her with his father: but Tobias went with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in lawe. 13Where he became olde with honour, and he buryed his father and mother in lawe honorably, & he inherited their substance and Tobits his father. 14And he dyed at Ecbatane in Media, being an hundreth and seuen & twentie yere olde. 15But before he dyed, he heard of the destruction of Nineue, which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus, and before his death, he reioyced for Nineue.