Genesis 24:10

Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and set out with precious gifts from his master. So he went to the town of Aram-naharaim, where Nahor lived.

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And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

In Context

9So the servant put his hand under Abraham’s thigh and made the promise.

11He made the camels kneel down outside the town by the well in the evening, at the time when women go out to draw water.

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Cross References

Genesis 11:26Terah lived for seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 22:20After these things, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor,

Genesis 27:43Now, my son, listen to me: run away to my brother Laban at Haran

Genesis 29:4Jacob said to the men, “My friends, from where do you come?” They said, “We are from Haran.”

Genesis 39:8But he refused, saying to her, “See, my master knows nothing about what I do in the house, and he has put all that he has in my charge.

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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