Genesis 24:5
The 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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4But you will go to my country, and to my relatives, and get a wife for my son Isaac.”
6Abraham said to him, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there!
Cross References
Genesis 24:58So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” She replied, “I will go.”
Exodus 20:7You must not take the name of Yahweh your God, in vain, for I will not hold guiltless anyone who takes my name in vain.
Jeremiah 4:2You must be truthful, just, and righteous when you swear, 'As Yahweh lives.' 1 Then the nations will bless themselves in him, and in him they will glory.” 1
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 →