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Genesis 24:4-9 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

4. but to go to my land and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Yitsḥaq.”

5. And the servant said to him, “What if the woman refuses to follow me to this land? Do I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

6. And Aḇraham said to him, “Beware lest you take my son back there!

7. “יהוה, Elohim of the heavens, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, ‘To your seed I give this land,’ He sends His messenger before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

8. “And if the woman refuses to follow you, then you shall be released from this oath; only, do not take my son back there.”

9. Then the servant put his hand under the thigh of Aḇraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

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