Genesis 24:6

And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.

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In The King James Version

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

In Context

5And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?

7The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

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Cross References

Hebrews 10:39But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.

Hebrews 11:13All these came to their end in faith, not having had the heritage; but having seen it with delight far away, they gave witness that they were wanderers and not of the earth.

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 →

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