◄ Genesis 24:4 ►
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Good News Translation
You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives."

New Revised Standard Version
but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Contemporary English Version
Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for him from among my relatives."

New American Bible
but that you will go to my own land and to my relatives to get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

to my kindred.

Genesis 11:25 And Nachor lived after he begot Thare, a hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

*etc:

Genesis 12:1,7 And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee. . . .

Genesis 22:20-23 After these things, it was told Abraham, that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother. . . .

Genesis 28:2 But go, and take a journey to Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bathuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife thence of the daughters of Laban, thy uncle.

Context
A Wife for Isaac
…3That I may make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that thou take not a wife for my son, of the daughters of the Chanaanites, among whom I dwell: 4But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.5The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?…
Cross References
Hebrews 11:15
And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.

Genesis 12:1
And the Lord said to Abram: Go forth out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and out of thy father's house, and come into the land which I shall shew thee.

Genesis 24:5
The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?

Genesis 28:1
And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, saying: Take not a wife of the stock of Chanaan:

Judges 14:3
And his father and mother said to him: Is there no woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou wilt take a wife of the Philistines, who are uncircumcised? And Samson said to his father: Take this woman for me; for she hath pleased my eyes.

Genesis 24:3
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