Tobit 6:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Tobias said to Raphael, “Brother Azariah, I’ve heard that she has already been given to seven men and that they died in the bridal chamber. They dropped dead the very night they tried to have sex with her. I’ve heard people saying that a demon kills them. 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.