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Then Tobias admonished the virgin, and said to her, Sarah, rise up, and pray we (to) God today, and tomorrow, and the second morrow/and after tomorrow; for in these three nights we be joined to God; and when the third night is passed, we shall be in our marriage; [Then Tobias besought the maiden, and said to her, Sarah, rise, and pray we today to God, and tomorrow, and the second morn; for these three nights we shall be joined to God; the third forsooth night passed over, we shall be in our wedlock;]

for we be the children of holy men, and we may not, or we be not able to be, joined or coupled together as (the) heathen men be, that know not God. [sons forsooth of hallows we be, and we may not so be joined as and Gentiles, that unknow God.]

Soothly they rose up together, and they both prayed together busily, that health (or deliverance) should be given to them.

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