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Tobit 7:13-14
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13 Then, after summoning her mother and instructing her to bring him a scroll, he drew up and affixed his seal to a marriage contract[a] stating that he gave Sarah to Tobiah as his wife according to the decree of the law of Moses. 14 Afterward they began to eat and drink.

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  1. Tobit 7:13 Marriage contract: the Mosaic Law did not contemplate marriage certificates, but they were introduced by custom; examples of them are found in the fifth century B.C. among the Aramaic papyri of Elephantine.
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