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Genesis 24:5-11 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

5. The servant said to him, "Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I take your son back to the land from where you came?"

6. Then Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there!

7. The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

8. But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there."

9. So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

10. Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master's in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

11. He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

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