Genesis 24:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for him from among my relatives.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:25

Nahor had more children and died at the age of one hundred and forty-eight.

Genesis 12:1

The LORD said to Abram: Leave your country, your family, and your relatives and go to the land that I will show you.

Genesis 12:7

but the LORD appeared to Abram and promised, “I will give this land to your family for ever.” Abram then built an altar there for the LORD.

Genesis 24:38

Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for my son from among my relatives.”

Genesis 24:5

But the servant asked, “What if the young woman I choose refuses to leave home and come here with me? Should I send Isaac there to look for a wife?”

Genesis 28:1

Isaac called in Jacob, then gave him a blessing, and said: Don't marry any of those Canaanite women.

Genesis 28:2

Go at once to your mother's father Bethuel in northern Syria and choose a wife from one of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada even chose two women for Joash to marry so he could have a family.

Hebrews 11:15

If they had been talking about the land where they had once lived, they could have gone back at any time.

Judges 14:3

His parents answered, “There are a lot of women in our clan and even more in the rest of Israel. Those Philistines are pagans. Why would you want to marry one of their women?” “She looks good to me,” Samson answered. “Get her for me!”