Genesis 24:39
Then I asked my master, ‘What shall I do if the woman you show me will not come back with me?’
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
In Context
38Instead, go back to my father’s family, to my own clan, and get from them a wife for my son.’
Cross References
Genesis 24:5The servant asked him, “If I find a woman among your relatives, what if she is not willing to come back with me to this land? Shall I take your son back there to the country you came from, so he can find a wife and live there?”
Matthew Henry on Genesis 24:30-54
Abraham's Servant Entertained by Laban; Errand of Abraham's Servant. ( b. c. 1857.) 29 And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well. 30 And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well. 31 And he said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord ; wherefore standest thou without?… Read the whole commentary →