Tobit 8:9
Good News Translation
and went to bed for the night.

New Revised Standard Version
Then they went to sleep for the night. But Raguel arose and called his servants to him, and they went and dug a grave,

Contemporary English Version
and then went to sleep for the night.

New American Bible
Now, not with lust, but with fidelity I take this kinswoman as my wife. Send down your mercy on me and on her, and grant that we may grow old together. Bless us with children.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Tobit 8:7
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 8:8
Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.

Tobit 8:10
Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.

Tobit 8:11
And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.

Context
Tobit 8
8Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper. 9And 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. 10Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.…
Cross References
Tobit 8:7
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 8:8
Thou madest Adam of the slime of the earth, and gavest him Eve for a helper.

Tobit 8:10
Sara also said: Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us, and let us grow old both together in health.

Tobit 8:11
And it came to pass about the cockcrowing, Raguel ordered his servants to be called for, and they went with him together to dig a grave.



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Tobit 8:8
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