Genesis 24:3
while I make you promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not let my son marry one of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live,
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4but that you will go to my own country and to my relatives and there get a wife for my son Isaac.’
Cross References
Genesis 6:4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and later too) when the heavenly beings lay with the human daughters who had their children. These were the mighty heroes of old, men of renown.
Genesis 14:19He blessed him saying: Blessed be Abram before God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.
Genesis 21:23Now therefore take an oath to me here by God that you will not be false to me, nor to my son nor to my descendants; but that you will treat me and the land you have stayed in according to the kindness which I have shown you.’
Genesis 26:34When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,
Genesis 28:1Then Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and instructed him, ‘You must not marry any of the daughters of Canaan.
Genesis 31:44Come, let us make a covenant, I and you, and let there be a witness between me and you.’
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 →