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The servant asked him, “What if the woman doesn’t want to come back to this land with me? Should I take your son all the way back to the land you came from?”

“Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said to him. Yahweh Elohim of heaven took me from my father’s home and the land of my family. He spoke to me and swore this oath: ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’

Elohim will send his angel ahead of you, and you will get my son a wife from there.

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The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land?(A) Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?(B)

“Make sure that you do not take my son back there,”(C) Abraham said. “The Lord, the God of heaven,(D) who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land(E) and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[a](F) I will give this land’(G)—he will send his angel before you(H) so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:7 Or seed