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Genesis 24:5

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The 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?”

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Genesis 24:5 in other translations

And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

Genesis 24:5 · American Standard Version

Genesis 24:5 in context

  1. 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.
  2. 4But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
  3. 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?”
  4. 6Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
  5. 7Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.