Tobit 8:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And Tobias said: Lord God of our father, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee.

⁸ Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.

⁹ And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever.