Tobit 8:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵She got up, and they began to pray and to ask that they might be delivered. Tobias then began to speak:

“Blessed are you, God of our ancestors, and blessed is your name for all generations. May the heavens and all your creation bless you forever! ⁶You created Adam and you created Eve his wife to help and support him, and from the two of them has come the human race. You said, ‘It isn’t good for the man to be alone; let’s make for him a helper like himself.’ ⁷I’m not taking this sister of mine now out of lust but with honest integrity.^[a] Grant that she and I will be shown mercy and grow old together.”

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