Genesis 24:4
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 11:25And after the birth of Terah, Nahor went on living for a hundred and nineteen years, and had sons and daughters:
Genesis 22:20After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
Genesis 28:2But go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel, your mother's father, and there get yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.
2 Chronicles 24:3And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
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 →