Tobit
8:1 Bakuba begqibile isidlo, bamngenisa uTobhiya kuye.
8:2 Kwaye njengoko wayehamba, wakhumbula amazwi kaRafayeli, waza waluthabatha uthuthu
waqhola phezu kwaso, wabeka kuyo intliziyo nesibindi sentlanzi;
waqhumisa ngayo.
8:3 Wathi weva ivumba elibi, wabalekela endlwini
Yaza yambopha ingelosi.
8:4 Ke kaloku, emveni kokuba bevalelwe ndawonye bobabini, wesuka uTobhiya waphuma
ebhedini, wathi, Dade, vuka, sithandaze ukuba uThixo abe nofefe
kuthi.
8:5 Waza waqala uTobhiya ukuthi, Ungowokubongwa, Thixo woobawo bethu
Malibongwe igama lakho elingcwele, elizukileyo ngonaphakade. malisikelele izulu
wena, nezidalwa zakho zonke.
8:6 Nguwe owamenza uAdam, wamnika uEva umkakhe ukuba abe ngumncedisi nowokuhlala;
zafika ebantwini, uthi, Akulungile ukuba umntu abekho
yedwa; masenze kuye uncedo olufana naye.
8:7 Ngoku ke, Nkosi yam, lo dade andimthabatheli ekumqwebeni;
ke ngoko ngenceba umisele ukuba sibe nokuguga kunye.
8:8 Wathi naye, Amen.
8:9 Balala ke bobabini ngobo busuku. Wesuka ke uRagueli, wahamba, walungisa
ngcwaba,
8:10 esithi, Ndiyoyika ukuba naye ufile.
8:11 Uthe ke akufika uRaguweli endlwini yakhe.
8:12 Wathi kuEdna umkakhe. Thumela enye yeempelesi, ize ibone;
ukuba uhleli, ukuba akathanga, simngcwabe, kungazi bani
yona.
8:13 Yaluvula ke ucango isicakazana, yangena, yabafumana belele bobabini.
8:14 Ephumile ke wabaxelela ukuba uhleli.
8:15 URaguweli wamdumisa uThixo, wathi, Thixo, Ufanele ukudunyiswa;
ngayo yonke indumiso enyulu nengcwele; ngenxa yoko mabakudumise ngawe abangcwele bakho
zonke izidalwa zakho; mazikubonge zonke izithunywa zakho nabanyulwa bakho
ngonaphakade.
8:16 Mawubongwe, ngokuba undivuyisile; kwaye akunjalo
yiza kum into ebendiyikrokrela; ke wena wenze kuthi ngokwesiko
Ubukhulu benceba yakho.
8:17 Mawokudunyiswa, ngokuba ubenzele inceba ababini ababengamalungisa
Okuphela koonyana abazelwe kooyise: Wènzele inceba, Nkosi yam, nawe
bagqibezele ubomi babo besempilweni ngovuyo nangenceba.
8:18 URaguweli wathi kubakhonzi bakhe, bazalise ingcwaba.
8:19 Kwaye wenza umthendeleko iintsuku ezilishumi elinesine.
8:20 Kuba, ingekazaliseki imihla yomtshato, wayethe uRagueli kuye
ngokuba akayi kunduluka kude kube ziintsuku ezilishumi elinesine
umtshato waphelelwa;
8:21 Wothabatha isiqingatha sempahla yakhe, aye kweyakhe ekholosile
utata; kwaye kufuneka siphumle xa mna nomfazi wam sifile.