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* So Tobit made an end of praising God . * And he was eight and fifty years old when he lost his sight , which was restored to him after eight years : and he gave alms , and he increased in the fear of the Lord God , and praised him . * And when he was very aged he called his son , and the sons of his son , and said to him , My son , take thy children ; for , behold , I am aged , and am ready to depart out of this life . * Go into Media my son , for I surely believe those things which Jonas the prophet spake of Nineve , that it shall be overthrown ; and that for a time peace shall rather be in Media ; and that our brethren shall lie scattered in the earth from that good land : and Jerusalem shall be desolate , and the house of God in it shall be burned , and shall be desolate for a time ; * And that again God will have mercy on them , and bring them again into the land , where they shall build a temple , but not like to the first , until the time of that age be fulfilled ; and afterward they shall return from all places of their captivity , and build up Jerusalem gloriously , and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building , as the prophets have spoken thereof . * And all nations shall turn , and fear the Lord God truly , and shall bury their idols . * So shall all nations praise the Lord , and his people shall confess God , and the Lord shall exalt his people ; and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice , shewing mercy to our brethren . * And now , my son , depart out of Nineve , because that those things which the prophet Jonas spake shall surely come to pass . * But keep thou the law and the commandments , and shew thyself merciful and just , that it may go well with thee . * And bury me decently , and thy mother with me ; but tarry no longer at Nineve . Remember , my son , how Aman handled Achiacharus that brought him up , how out of light he brought him into darkness , and how he rewarded him again : yet Achiacharus was saved , but the other had his reward : for he went down into darkness . Manasses gave alms , and escaped the snares of death which they had set for him : but Aman fell into the snare , and perished . * Wherefore now , my son , consider what alms doeth , and how righteousness doth deliver . When he had said these things , he gave up the ghost in the bed , being an hundred and eight and fifty years old ; and he buried him honourably . * And when Anna his mother was dead , he buried her with his father . But Tobias departed with his wife and children to Ecbatane to Raguel his father in law , * Where he became old with honour , and he buried his father and mother in law honourably , and he inherited their substance , and his father Tobit 's . * And he died at Ecbatane in Media , being an hundred and seven and twenty years old . * But before he died he heard of the destruction of Nineve , which was taken by Nabuchodonosor and Assuerus : and before his death he rejoiced over Nineve .

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