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Tobit 7:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 7:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 Then, after summoning her mother and instructing her to bring him a scroll, he drew up and affixed his seal to a marriage contract[a] stating that he gave Sarah to Tobiah as his wife according to the decree of the law of Moses. 14 Afterward they began to eat and drink.
15 Later on, Raguel called his wife Edna and said, “My sister, get the other room ready and bring her there.”
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- Tobit 7:13 Marriage contract: the Mosaic Law did not contemplate marriage certificates, but they were introduced by custom; examples of them are found in the fifth century B.C. among the Aramaic papyri of Elephantine.
