Tobit 8:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

‘Blessed are you, O God of our ancestors,
    and blessed is your name in all generations for ever.
Let the heavens and the whole creation bless you for ever.
⁶ You made Adam, and for him you made his wife Eve
    as a helper and support.
    From the two of them the human race has sprung.
You said, “It is not good that the man should be alone;
    let us make a helper for him like himself.”
⁷ I now am taking this kinswoman of mine,
    not because of lust,
    but with sincerity.
Grant that she and I may find mercy
    and that we may grow old together.’