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Genesis 24:4

But you will go to my country, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

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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 make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I make my home.

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?”

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Cross References

Genesis 11:25Nahor lived 119 years after he became the father of Terah. He also became the father of other sons and daughters.

Genesis 22:20It came about after these things that Abraham was told, “Milkah has borne children, as well, to your brother Nahor.”

Genesis 28:2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father, and take a wife from there, one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

2 Chronicles 24:3Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of 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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