Genesis 24:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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 live,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying, You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

Common English Bible

³⁷ My master made me give him my word: ‘Don’t choose a wife for my son from the Canaanite women, in whose land I’m living.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ And my lord made me swear, saying: 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell.

Genesis 24:37 Cross References

Genesis 24:38

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

Genesis 27:46

Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women such as these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that they were fair, and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.