Tobit 3:9
Good News Translation
Why should you take it out on us? Why don't you go and join your dead husbands? I hope we never see a child of yours!"

New Revised Standard Version
Why do you beat us? Because your husbands are dead? Go with them! May we never see a son or daughter of yours!”

Contemporary English Version
So why do you strike at us because your husbands have died? Just go where they are! We hope you never have any children!"

New American Bible
Why do you beat us? Because your husbands are dead? Go, join them! May we never see son or daughter of yours!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.

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So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands.

Tobit 3:7
Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,

Tobit 3:8
Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.

Tobit 3:10
Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:

Tobit 3:11
But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.

Context
Tobit 3
8Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. 9So when she reproved the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying: May we never see son, or daughter of thee upon the earth, thou murderer of thy husbands. 10Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:…
Cross References
Tobit 3:7
Now it happened on the same day, that Sara daughter of Raguel, in Rages a city of the Medes, received a reproach from one of her father's servant maids,

Tobit 3:8
Because she had been given to seven husbands and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her.

Tobit 3:10
Wilt thou kill me also, as thou hast already killed seven husbands? At these words, she went into an upper chamber of her house: and for three days and three nights did neither eat nor drink:

Tobit 3:11
But continuing in prayer with tears besought God, that he would deliver her from this reproach.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 3:8
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