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12 When thou, Tobit, prayedest with tears, and buriedest dead men, and leftist thy meat (or thy meal), and hidest those dead men by day in thine house, and buriedest them in the night, I offered thy prayers[a] to the Lord. [When thou prayedest with tears, and thou buriedest the dead, and leftist the meat, and the dead by day thou hidest in thine house, and in the night thou buriedest, I offered thine orison to the Lord.]

13 And for thou were acceptable to the Lord, it was needful that temptation should prove thee. (And in order for thou to be acceptable to, or accepted by, God, it was necessary that thou should be assayed, or tried, through temptation.) [And for thou were accepted to (or by) the Lord, it was needful that temptation should prove thee.]

14 And now (or And so) the Lord sent me for to cure thee, and to deliver Sarah, the wife of thy son, from the fiend. [And now the Lord sent me, (so) that I should heal thee, and Sarah, the wife of thy son, from the devil deliver.]

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  1. Tobit 12:12 For angels offer to God the prayers of just men; they be spirits of service sent into service, for them that take the heritage of health (or who receive the inheritance of deliverance); to (or see) (the Book of) Hebrews, in the first Chapter.