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# Tobit 8

Tobit 8 is chapter 8 of 14 in the Book of Tobit. Here are all 24 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Tobias burneth part of the fish's liver, and Raphael bindeth the devil. Tobias and Sara pray.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Tobit 8 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In truth, after they had dined, they introduced the young man to her.
2. And so, Tobias, remembering the word of the Angel, took part of the liver from his bag, and he placed it over the live coals.
3. Then the Angel Raphael caught the demon, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt.
4. Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and he said to her: “Sarah, get up and let us pray to God this day, and tomorrow, and the following day. For, during these three nights, we are being joined to God. And then, when the third night has passed, we ourselves will be joined together.
5. For certainly, we are the children of the saints, and we must not be joined together in such a manner as the heathens, who are ignorant of God.”
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.
19. Moreover, you have had compassion on two only children. Make them, O Lord, able to bless you more fully and to offer you a sacrifice of your praise and of their health, so that all peoples everywhere may know that you alone are God in all the earth.”
20. And immediately Raguel instructed his servants to refill the pit, which they had made, before daylight.
21. And then he told his wife to make ready a feast, and to prepare all the provisions that are necessary for those who undertake a journey.
22. Likewise, he caused two fat cows and four rams to be killed, and a banquet to be prepared for all his neighbors and every one of his friends.
23. And Raguel pleaded with Tobias to delay with him for two weeks.
24. Moreover, of all the things that Raguel possessed, he gave one half part to Tobias, and he made a writing, so that the half that remained should also pass into the ownership of Tobias, after their deaths.

## Tobit 8 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Postquam vero cœnaverunt, introduxerunt juvenem ad eam.
2. Recordatus itaque Tobias sermonum angeli, protulit de cassidili suo partem jecoris, posuitque eam super carbones vivos.
3. Tunc Raphaël angelus apprehendit dæmonium, et religavit illud in deserto superioris Ægypti.
4. Tunc hortatus est virginem Tobias, dixitque ei: Sara, exsurge, et deprecemur Deum hodie, et cras, et secundum cras: quia his tribus noctibus Deo jungimur; tertia autem transacta nocte, in nostro erimus conjugio.
5. Filii quippe sanctorum sumus, et non possumus ita conjungi sicut gentes quæ ignorant Deum.
6. Surgentes autem pariter, instanter orabant ambo simul, ut sanitas daretur eis.
7. Dixitque Tobias: Domine Deus patrum nostrorum, benedicant te cæli et terræ, mareque et fontes, et flumina, et omnes creaturæ tuæ quæ in eis sunt.
8. Tu fecisti Adam de limo terræ, dedistique ei adjutorium Hevam.
9. Et nunc Domine, tu scis quia non luxuriæ causa accipio sororem meam conjugem, sed sola posteritatis dilectione, in qua benedicatur nomen tuum in sæcula sæculorum.
10. Dixit quoque Sara: Miserere nobis Domine, miserere nobis, et consenescamus ambo pariter sani.
11. Et factum est circa pullorum cantum, accersiri jussit Raguel servos suos, et abierunt cum eo pariter ut foderent sepulchrum.
12. Dicebat enim: Ne forte simili modo evenerit ei, quo et ceteris illis septem viris qui sunt ingressi ad eam.
13. Cumque parassent fossam, reversus Raguel ad uxorem suam, dixit ei:
14. Mitte unam de ancillis tuis, et videat si mortuus est, ut sepeliam eum antequam illucescat dies.
15. At illa misit unam ex ancillis suis. Quæ ingressa cubiculum, reperit eos salvos et incolumes, secum pariter dormientes.
16. Et reversa nuntiavit bonum nuntium: et benedixerunt Dominum, Raguel videlicet et Anna uxor ejus,
17. et dixerunt: Benedicimus te, Domine Deus Israël, quia non contigit quemadmodum putabamus.
18. Fecisti enim nobiscum misericordiam tuam, et exclusisti a nobis inimicum persequentem nos.
19. Misertus es autem duobus unicis. Fac eos, Domine, plenius benedicere te, et sacrificium tibi laudis tuæ et suæ sanitatis offerre, ut cognoscat universitas gentium quia tu es Deus solus in universa terra.
20. Statimque præcepit servis suis Raguel ut replerent fossam quam fecerant priusquam elucesceret.
21. Uxori autem suæ dixit ut instrueret convivium, et præpararet omnia quæ in cibos erant iter agentibus necessaria.
22. Duas quoque pingues vaccas, et quatuor arietes, occidi fecit, et parari epulas omnibus vicinis suis, cunctisque amicis.
23. Et adjuravit Raguel Tobiam ut duas hebdomadas moraretur apud se.
24. De omnibus autem quæ possidebat Raguel, dimidiam partem dedit Tobiæ, et fecit scripturam, ut pars dimidia quæ supererat, post obitum eorum Tobiæ dominio deveniret.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 2361: The Love of Husband and Wife ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 360: Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Read at Mass (US)

- Thu, Jun 3, 2027 (computed): St. Charles Lwanga and Companions, Martyrs — First Reading, Tobit 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a

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).