2 And he answered, My father, I shall not lose if I give him half of all that I have brought;

3 For he brought me to thee well, and healed my wife, and brought my money, and healed thee also.

4 The elder said, "This is what he should do."

5 And he called the angel and said to him, 'Take half of all that you have brought, and go in peace.'

6 Then the angel called them both apart, and said to them, 'Bless God, glorify him, acknowledge his greatness, and confess before all the living what he has done for you.' It is a good deed to bless God, to exalt His name, and to preach reverently about the works of God; and you are not slothful in glorifying Him.

7 It is fitting for a king to keep a secret, but to declare the works of God praiseworthy. Do good, and evil will not come upon you.

8 A good deed is prayer with fasting and alms and justice. Better is a little with justice than much with unrighteousness; It is better to give alms than to gather gold;

9 For alms delivereth from death, and is able to cleanse all sin. Those who do alms and works of righteousness will live long.

10 But sinners are the enemies of their lives.

11 I will hide nothing from you; I have already said: it is proper for a king to keep a secret, but to declare the works of God is praiseworthy.

12 And when thou didst pray, and Sarah thy daughter-in-law, I offered up the remembrance of thy prayer before the Holy One, and when thou didst bury the dead, I was also with thee.

13 And when thou wast not slothful to get up, and leave thy supper, to go and take away the dead, thy charity was not concealed from me, but I was with thee.

14 And now God has sent me to heal thee, and thy sister-in-law Sarah.

15 I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who offer up the prayers of the saints and ascend before the glory of the Holy One.