Tobit 6:13-15

Common English Bible

¹³ He continued, “It’s right for you to marry her. So listen to me, brother: I’ll speak to her father about the girl tonight so that we can take her as a bride for you. And when we return from Rages,^[a] we will celebrate her wedding. I know that Raguel can’t keep her from you, nor can he promise her to someone else without incurring the death penalty according to the ruling of the scroll from Moses. He knows that the regulation for inheritance makes it fitting that you, rather than any other man, should marry his daughter. So now listen to me, brother: We will speak about the girl tonight and arrange for her engagement to you. When we return from Rages, we will take her and bring her back with us to your home.”

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^[b] doesn’t harm her but kills anyone who desires to approach her. I’m my father’s only child, and I’m afraid^[c] 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.”