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Tobit 3:5-9 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

5. And now, O Lord, great are your judgments. For we have not acted according to your precepts, and we have not walked sincerely before you.

6. And now, O Lord, do with me according to your will, and order my spirit to be received in peace. For it is more expedient for me to die, than to live."

7. And so, on the same day, it happened that Sarah, the daughter of Raguel, in Rages, a city of the Medes, also heard a reproach from one of her father's servant maids.

8. For she had been given to seven husbands, and a demon named Asmodeus had killed them, as soon as they had approached her.

9. Therefore, when she corrected the maid for her fault, she answered her, saying, "May we never see son or daughter from you upon the earth, you murderess of your husbands.