Tobit 8:6
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
You made Adam, and for him you made his wife Eve as a helper and support. From the two of them the human race has sprung. You said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; let us make a helper for him like himself.’

Contemporary English Version
"You made Adam and said, 'It isn't good for the man to live alone. So we will make a suitable partner for him, someone like himself.' Then you gave him Eve-- the perfect companion-- and they were the source of the whole human race.

New American Bible
When Sarah’s parents left the bedroom and closed the door behind them, Tobiah rose from bed and said to his wife, “My sister, come, let us pray and beg our Lord to grant us mercy and protection.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them.

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So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them.

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.

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.



(T To Tob Tobias)

Tobit 8:5
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