Genesis 24:39 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁹ I said to my master, ‘Perhaps the woman will not follow me.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ And I said to my master, But suppose the woman will not follow me.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

Common English Bible

³⁹ I said to my master, ‘What if the woman won’t come back with me?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ But truly, I answered my lord, 'What if the woman is not willing to come with me?'

Genesis 24:39 Cross References

Genesis 24:5

The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

Genesis 24:38

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