Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Lord, I have chosen Sarah because it is right, not because I lusted for her. Please be merciful to us and grant that we may grow old together." Contemporary English Version Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee. Tobit 8:5For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. Tobit 8:6 So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them. Tobit 8:8 Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper. Tobit 8:9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever. Context Tobit 8…6So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them. 7And Tobias said: Lord God of our fathers, may the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the fountains, and the rivers, and all thy creatures that are in them, bless thee. 8Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.… Cross References Tobit 8:5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. Tobit 8:6 So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them. Tobit 8:8 Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper. Tobit 8:9 And now, Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity, in which thy name may be blessed for ever and ever. |
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