Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation You created Adam and gave him his wife Eve to be his helper and support. They became the parents of the whole human race. You said, 'It is not good for man to live alone. I will make a suitable helper for him.' New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them. Tobit 8:4Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock. Tobit 8:5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. Tobit 8:7 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. Context Tobit 8…5For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. 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.… Cross References Tobit 8:4 Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God to day, and to morrow, and the next day: because for these three nights we are joined to God: and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock. Tobit 8:5 For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. Tobit 8:7 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. |