Then Tobi said, Life and peace to thee! Now therefore, my brother, be not provoked with me for that I enquire to know the matter of the ancestors of thy family, for, behold, my brother, thou art of a good and honourable family, and also thou knowest Hananel and Nathan, the two sons of the great Shelomith, and it was they who went with me to Jerusalem, when we dwelt in the land of Israel, and worshipped with me there, and these did not stray after the strange gods of the land, like our brethren.
Now therefore, my brother, go in peace with my son, and come ye back in peace with the help of God, and I will give thy wages, a drachm every day, and thy food as for my son, and, if the Holy One (blessed is he) bring you back in peace, I will yet add to thy wages. And the angel said, Fear not, for I will go with thy son, and we shall go in peace, and we shall return in peace.