Genesis 24:5
The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place, from whence thou camest out?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
4But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
6And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.
Cross References
Genesis 24:58And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.
Exodus 20:7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.
Jeremiah 4:2And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgement, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.
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 →