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14 Then Tobias answered, and said, I have heard, that she was given to seven husbands, and all they be dead; but I have heard this also, that a fiend killed them [or a devil slew them].

15 And therefore I dreaded, lest peradventure also these things befall to me; and since I am one alone to my father and mother, I (would) put down with sorrow their eld (age) to hells (or to the grave)/and since I am an only son to my father and mother, I dread to put down to hell their eld (age) with dreariness (or I fear to drive them to the grave through great sorrow). [I dread then, lest peradventure and these things fall to me; and since I am alone to my father and mother, I put down the eld (age) of them with sorrow to hell.]

16 Then the angel Raphael said to him, Hear thou me, and I shall show to thee, who they be, over whom the fiend hath mastery; [Then (the) angel Raphael said to him, Hear me, and I shall show to thee, who be, to whom may the devil have mastery;]

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