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Genesis 24:38

World English Bible

but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

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Genesis 24:38 in other translations

but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

Genesis 24:38 · American Standard Version

Genesis 24:38 in context

  1. 36Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.
  2. 37My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
  3. 38but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
  4. 39I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
  5. 40He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.