I-Tobit
7:1 Kwathi sebefikile e-Ekibhatane, bafika endlini kaRaguweli.
uSara wabahlangabeza; sebebingelelane, waletha
bangene endlini.
7:2 Wayesethi uRaguweli ku-Edna umkakhe, "Injani le nsizwa eThobithi?"
umzala wami!
7:3 URaguweli wababuza, "Nivelaphi, bazalwane? Bathi kubo,
Thina singamadodana kaNafetali, abathunjelwe eNineve.
7:4 Wathi kubo: "Niyamazi uTobit isihlobo sethu?" Basebesithi: Thina
uyamazi. Wayesethi: “Uphilile na?
7:5 Bathi, "Uyaphila futhi unempilo enhle." UThobiya wathi: "Uyaphila."
ubaba wami.
7:6 URaguweli wagxuma, wamanga, wakhala.
7:7 Wambusisa, wathi kuye: “Wena uyindodana yomuntu oqotho;
indoda enhle. Kodwa lapho ezwa ukuthi uThobithi uyimpumputhe, wadabuka.
futhi wakhala.
7:8 Futhi ngokufanayo u-Edna umkakhe kanye noSara indodakazi yakhe bakhala. Ngaphezu kwalokho ba
wababungaza ngenjabulo; emva kwalokho babulala inqama yenkosi
umhlambi, babeka ukudla etafuleni. Khona-ke uThobiya wathi kuRafayeli:
Mfowethu Azariya, khuluma ngalezo zinto owakhuluma ngazo encwadini
indlela, futhi vumela leli bhizinisi lithunyelwe.
7:9 Ngakho wakhuluma udaba kuRaguweli; futhi uRaguweli wathi kuThobiya.
Yidla, uphuze, ujabule;
7:10 Ngoba kufanele ukuba ushade indodakazi yami
uzokutshela iqiniso.
7:11 Nginikele indodakazi yami emadodeni ayisikhombisa, afa ngalobo busuku
bangena kuye, nokho jabulani okwamanje. Kodwa Thobias
wathi: Ngeke ngidle lutho lapha, size sivumelane futhi sifunge omunye komunye.
7:12 Wathi uRaguweli, Khona-ke mthathe kusukela manje ngokwesimiso, ngokuba
ungumzala wakhe, futhi ungowakho, futhi uNkulunkulu onesihe akunike
impumelelo enhle ezintweni zonke.
7:13 Khona-ke wabiza indodakazi yakhe uSara, futhi weza kuyise, futhi yena
wambamba ngesandla, wamnika ukuba abe ngumkaThobiya, wathi: “Bheka!
mthathe ngokomthetho kaMose, umyise kuyihlo. Futhi yena
wababusisa;
7:14 Futhi wabiza Edna umkakhe, futhi wathatha iphepha, futhi wabhala insimbi
izivumelwano, futhi wasibeka ngophawu.
7:15 Khona-ke baqala ukudla.
7:16 URaguweli wabiza umkakhe u-Edna, wathi kuye, Dadewethu, lungisa
elinye ikamelo, nimngenise khona.
7:17 Esekwenzile njengokumyala kwakhe, wamyisa khona.
wakhala, wemukela izinyembezi zendodakazi yakhe, wathi kuye
yena,
7:18 Yiba nenduduzo, ndodakazi yami; iNkosi yezulu nomhlaba mayikunike
intokozo ngalolusizi lwakho: duduzeka, ndodakazi yami.