Font Size
Tobit 3:7-9
New Catholic Bible
Tobit 3:7-9
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. 8 For she had been married to seven husbands, but the wicked demon Asmodeus had slain each of them before the marriage had been consummated as is customary. The servant girl said to her, “You are the one who has slain your husbands! Behold, you have already been given in marriage seven times, but you have experienced no joy with any of your husbands. 9 Just because your husbands are dead is no reason to abuse us. Join them, and may we never live to see any son or daughter of yours!”
Read full chapterFootnotes
- 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).
