9 But when they drew near to Rages, 10 the messenger said to the young man, “Brother, today we’ll lodge with Re’uel. He’s your kinsman. He has an only daughter named Sarah. I’ll speak about her, that she should be given to you for a wife. 11 Because her inheritance belongs to you, and you only are of her kindred. 12 The maid is fair and wise. And now hear me, and I’ll speak to her father. When we return from Rages we’ll celebrate the marriage; for I know that Re’uel may in no way marry her to another according to Mosheh’s (Moses’) law, or else he’d be liable to death, because it belongs to you to take the inheritance, rather than any other.”

13 Then the young man said to the messenger, “Brother Azaryah, I’ve heard that this maid has been given to seven men, and that they all perished in the bridal room. 14 Now I’m my father’s only son, and I’m afraid that I might go in and die, just like those before me. Because a demon loves her, which harms no man, but those which come to her. Now I fear that I might die, and bring my father’s and my mother’s life to the grave with sorrow because of me. They have no other son to bury them.”

15 But the messenger said to him, “Don’t you remember the words which your father commanded you, that you should take a wife of your own kindred? Now hear me, brother; for she’ll be your wife. Don’t worry about the demon; for this night she’ll be given you as wife. 16 And when[fn] you come into the bridal room, take the ashes of incense, and put on them some of the heart and liver of the fish, and make smoke with them. 17 The demon will smell it, and flee away, and never come again any more. But when you go near to her, both of you rise up, and cry to God who’s merciful. He’ll save you, and have mercy on you. Don’t be afraid, for she was prepared for you from the beginning; and you’ll save her, and she’ll go with you. And I suppose that you’ll have children with her.”

When Toviyah (Tobias) heard these things, he loved her, and his soul was strongly joined to her.