Tobit 3:8-10

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁸ because she had been given to seven husbands, and the evil demon Asmode′us had slain each of them before he had been with her as his wife. So the maids^[a] said to her, “Do you not know that you strangle your husbands? You already have had seven and have had no benefit from^[b] any of them. ⁹ Why do you beat us? If they are dead, go with them! May we never see a son or daughter of yours!”

Sarah’s Prayer for Death

¹⁰ When she heard these things she was deeply grieved, even to the thought of hanging herself. But she said, “I am the only child of my father; if I do this, it will be a disgrace to him, and I shall bring his old age down in sorrow to the grave.”^[c]