Tobit 6:15-17

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Now I’m also afraid, because the demon loves her and^[a] doesn’t harm her but kills anyone who desires to approach her. I’m my father’s only child, and I’m afraid^[b] that I will die and bring my father and mother down to their graves with grief over me. Moreover, they don’t have another son to bury them.”

¹⁶ Raphael said to him, “Don’t you remember your father’s instructions, that you should take a wife from among your father’s relatives? Now listen to me, my brother: Don’t worry about this demon. Take her, for I know that tonight she will be given to you as your wife. ¹⁷ When you enter into the bridal chamber, take some of the fish’s liver and heart and lay them over the warm incense coals. This will let off an odor,