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Genesis 24:5

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The servant responded, "If the woman is not willing to come with me into this land, must I lead your son back to the place from which you departed?"

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

But that you will proceed to my land and kindred, and from there take a wife for my son Isaac."

And when, having been called, she arrived, they wanted to know, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

And Abraham said: "Beware that you never lead my son back to that place.

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. For the Lord will not hold harmless one who takes the name of the Lord his God falsely.

But if you still refuse, and you retain them,

The discerning do everything with counsel. But whoever is senseless discloses his stupidity.

And you will swear, 'As the Lord lives,' in truth and in judgment and in justice." And the Gentiles will bless him, and they will praise him.