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Tobit 3:7
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 3:7
New Catholic Bible
Sarah: Innocence Diabolically Offended[a]
Sarah’s Misfortune.[b] 7 On the same day, at Ecbatana in Media, it also happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel,[c] had to endure the insults of one of her father’s maids.
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- Tobit 3:7 The story of Tobit is brusquely interrupted. In a second sequence, the author introduces a new and unexpected personage.
- Tobit 3:7 In the ancient East, sicknesses and sometimes even death were attributed to the wickedness of a demon, here called Asmodeus, “the destroyer” (even though he is not related to Asmadaeva, the worst demon of Avesta, the sacred book of the Persians).
- Tobit 3:7 Raguel: cousin of Tobit (see Tob 7:2). Ecbatana was the capital of the middle kingdom (the contemporary Hamadan in Iran).
