Genesis 24:4
but to my land and to my family you go, and have taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.”
Literal Standard Version
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 Nahor lives after his begetting Terah one hundred and nineteen years [[ or one hundred and twenty-nine years]], and begets sons and daughters.
Genesis 22:20And it comes to pass after these things that it is declared to Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah has borne, even she, sons to your brother Nahor:
Genesis 28:2rise, go to Padan-Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take for yourself a wife from there, from the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban;
2 Chronicles 24:3And Jehoiada takes two wives for him, and he begets 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 →