Cross References

Genesis 24:38

Good News Translation

Instead, go to my father's people, to my relatives, and choose a wife for him.’

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The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.

My master made me promise with a vow to obey his command. He said, ‘Do not choose a wife for my son from the young women in the land of Canaan.

And I asked my master, ‘What if she will not come with me?’

You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives.”

Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and during his absence Rachel stole the household gods that belonged to her father.