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Tobit 6:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Tobit 6:14-15
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
14 Then Tobias said in answer to Raphael, “Azariah, my brother, I have heard that she already has been married to seven husbands and that they died in the bridal chamber. On the night when they went in to her, they would die. And I have heard some say that a demon kills them.[a](A) 15 It does not harm her, but it kills anyone who desires to approach her. So now, since I am the only son my father has, I am afraid that I may die and bring my father’s and mother’s lives down to their graves, grieving for me—and they have no other son to bury them.”(B)
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- 6.14 Other ancient authorities lack And I . . . kills them
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