Genesis 24:10
And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
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9And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.
Cross References
Genesis 11:26And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 22:20After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
Genesis 27:43So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban;
Genesis 29:4Then Jacob said to the herdmen, My brothers, where do you come from? And they said, From Haran.
Genesis 39:8But he would not, and said to her, You see that my master keeps no account of what I do in his house, and has put all his property in my control;
Deuteronomy 23:4Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 24:2-10
Abraham's Charges to His Servant. ( b. c. 1857.) 1 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. 2 And Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh: 3 And I will make thee swear by the Lord , the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my… Read the whole commentary →