Genesis 24:4
Instead, go to my homeland where my relatives live, and find a wife there for my son Isaac.”
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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
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Genesis 11:25Nahor lived another 119 years after Terah was born and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 22:20Sometime later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has had sons for your brother Nahor.”
Genesis 28:2“Leave right away and go to Paddan-aram, to the home of Bethuel, your mother's father. Find yourself a wife there—a daughter of Laban, your mother's brother.
2 Chronicles 24:3Jehoiada arranged for him to marry two wives, and he had 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 →