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# Tobit 12

Tobit 12 is chapter 12 of 14 in the Book of Tobit. Here are all 22 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Raphael maketh himself known.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Tobit 12 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. Then Tobit called his son to him, and he said to him, “What are we able to give to this holy man, who accompanied you?”
2. Tobias, answering, said to his father: “Father, what wages shall we give him? And what could be worthy of his benefits?
3. He led me and he brought me back safely. He received the money from Gabael. He caused me to have my wife. And he confined the demon away from her. He caused joy to her parents. Myself, he rescued from being devoured by the fish. As for you, he also caused you to see the light of heaven. And so, we have been filled with all good things through him. What could we possibly give to him that would be worthy of these things?
4. But I implore you, my father, to ask him if he would perhaps deign to take for himself half of all the things that have been brought.”
5. And calling him, the father especially, and the son, they took him aside. And they began to petition him, so that he would deign to accept ownership of one half part of all things that they had brought.
6. Then he said to them privately: “Bless the God of heaven, and confess to him in the sight of all who live, for he has acted in his mercy toward you.
7. For it is good to conceal the secret of a king, just as it is also honorable to reveal and to confess the works of God.
8. Prayer with fasting is good, and almsgiving is better than hiding away gold in storage.
9. For almsgiving delivers from death, and the same is what purges sins and makes one able to find mercy and everlasting life.
10. But those who commit sin and iniquity are enemies to their own soul.
11. Therefore, I reveal the truth to you, and I will not hide the explanation from you.
12. When you prayed with tears, and buried the dead, and left behind your dinner, and hid the dead by day in your house, and buried them by night: I offered your prayer to the Lord.
13. And because you were acceptable to God, it was necessary for you to be tested by trials.
14. And now, the Lord has sent me to cure you, and to free Sarah, your son’s wife, from the demon.
15. For I am the Angel Raphael, one of seven, who stand before the Lord.”
16. And when they had heard these things, they were troubled, and being seized with fear, they fell upon the ground on their face.
17. And the Angel said to them: “Peace be to you. Fear not.
18. For when I was with you, I was there by the will of God. Bless him, and sing to him.
19. Indeed, I seemed to eat and drink with you, but I make use of an invisible food and drink, which cannot be seen by men.
20. Therefore, it is time that I return to him who sent me. But as for you, bless God, and describe all his wonders.”
21. And when he had said these things, he was taken from their sight, and they were not able to see him any longer.
22. Then, lying prostrate for three hours upon their face, they blessed God. And rising up, they described all his wonders.

## Tobit 12 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Tunc vocavit ad se Tobias filium suum, dixitque ei: Quid possumus dare viro isti sancto, qui venit tecum?
2. Respondens Tobias, dixit patri suo: Pater, quam mercedem dabimus ei? aut quid dignum poterit esse beneficiis ejus?
3. Me duxit et reduxit sanum, pecuniam a Gabelo ipse recepit, uxorem ipse me habere fecit, et dæmonium ab ea ipse compescuit: gaudium parentibus ejus fecit, meipsum a devoratione piscis eripuit, te quoque videre fecit lumen cæli, et bonis omnibus per eum repleti sumus. Quid illi ad hæc poterimus dignum dare?
4. Sed peto te, pater mi, ut roges eum, si forte dignabitur medietatem de omnibus quæ allata sunt, sibi assumere.
5. Et vocantes eum, pater scilicet et filius, tulerunt eum in partem: et rogare cœperunt ut dignaretur dimidiam partem omnium quæ attulerant acceptam habere.
6. Tunc dixit eis occulte: Benedicite Deum cæli, et coram omnibus viventibus confitemini ei, quia fecit vobiscum misericordiam suam.
7. Etenim sacramentum regis abscondere bonum est: opera autem Dei revelare et confiteri honorificum est.
8. Bona est oratio cum jejunio, et eleemosyna magis quam thesauros auri recondere:
9. quoniam eleemosyna a morte liberat, et ipsa est quæ purgat peccata, et facit invenire misericordiam et viam æternam.
10. Qui autem faciunt peccatum et iniquitatem, hostes sunt animæ suæ.
11. Manifesto ergo vobis veritatem, et non abscondam a vobis occultum sermonem.
12. Quando orabas cum lacrimis, et sepeliebas mortuos, et derelinquebas prandium tuum, et mortuos abscondebas per diem in domo tua, et nocte sepeliebas eos, ego obtuli orationem tuam Domino.
13. Et quia acceptus eras Deo, necesse fuit ut tentatio probaret te.
14. Et nunc misit me Dominus ut curarem te, et Saram uxorem filii tui a dæmonio liberarem.
15. Ego enim sum Raphaël angelus, unus ex septem qui adstamus ante Dominum.
16. Cumque hæc audissent, turbati sunt, et trementes ceciderunt super terram in faciem suam.
17. Dixitque eis angelus: Pax vobis: nolite timere.
18. Etenim cum essem vobiscum, per voluntatem Dei eram: ipsum benedicite, et cantate illi.
19. Videbar quidem vobiscum manducare et bibere: sed ego cibo invisibili, et potu qui ab hominibus videri non potest, utor.
20. Tempus est ergo ut revertar ad eum qui me misit: vos autem benedicite Deum, et narrate omnia mirabilia ejus.
21. Et cum hæc dixisset, ab aspectu eorum ablatus est, et ultra eum videre non potuerunt.
22. Tunc prostrati per horas tres in faciem, benedixerunt Deum: et exsurgentes narraverunt omnia mirabilia ejus.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1434: The Many Forms of Penance in Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 336: Heaven and Earth ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “Prayer knocks, fasting obtains, mercy receives. Prayer, mercy and fasting: these three are one, and they give life to each other.” — St. Peter Chrysologus, Sermon 43, c. 440 (On this theme: verse 8)

## Read at Mass (US)

- Sat, Jun 5, 2027 (computed): Saturday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time — First Reading, Tobit 12:1, 5-15, 20

Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).