Genesis 24:38 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But you shall go to my father's house and to my family and take a wife for my son.

American Standard Version (1901)

but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

Common English Bible

No, instead, go to my father’s household and to my relatives and choose a wife for my son.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

But you shall travel to my father's house, and you shall take a wife of my own kindred for my son.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son.

Genesis 24:38 Cross References

Genesis 12:1

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 24:37

My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

Genesis 24:39

I said to my master, ‘Perhaps the woman will not follow me.’

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 31:19

Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.