Sinai LogoSinai

Genesis 24:4

World English Bible

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

Read all of Genesis 24Open in the Sinai app

Genesis 24:4 in other translations

but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

Genesis 24:4 · American Standard Version

Genesis 24:4 in context

  1. 2Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.
  2. 3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
  3. 4But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
  4. 5The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
  5. 6Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.