◄ Genesis 24:6 ►
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Good News Translation
Abraham answered, "Make sure that you don't send my son back there!

New Revised Standard Version
Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there.

Contemporary English Version
"No!" Abraham answered. "Don't ever do that, no matter what.

New American Bible
Abraham told him, “Never take my son back there for any reason!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

Galatians 5:1 Stand fast and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

Hebrews 11:9,13-16 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise. . . .

2 Peter 2:20-22 For if, flying from the pollutions of the world, through the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they be again entangled in them and overcome: their latter state is become unto them worse than the former. . . .

Context
A Wife for 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? 6And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.7The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son.…
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 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 24:8
But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.

Genesis 24:5
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