Genesis 24:4

But you shall go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and you shall take from thence a wife for my son Isaac.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

3and I will adjure you by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Chananites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.

5And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back your son to the land whence you came forth, + 24:5 See the use of μή ποτε in a somewhat similar case, 2 Tim 2:25. if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land?

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Cross References

Genesis 11:25And Nachor lived after he had begotten Tharrha, + 11:25 Alex 129 years. one hundred and twenty-five years, and begot sons and daughters, and he died.

Genesis 22:20Uz the firstborn, and Baux his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians, and Chazad, and

Genesis 28:2Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bathuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself thence a wife of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

2 Chronicles 24:3And Jodae took to himself two wives, and they bore 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 →

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