Genesis 24:39

I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

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In The King James Version

And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

In Context

38Instead, you must go to my father's family, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son.'

40But he said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you and he will prosper your way, so that you will get a wife for my son from among my relatives and from my father's family line.

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Cross References

Genesis 24:5The servant said to him, “What if the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land? Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?”

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 →

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