Genesis 24:4

Good News Translation

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

Cross References

Genesis 11:25

after that, he lived another 119 years and had other children.

Genesis 12:1

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.

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said to him, “This is the country that I am going to give to your descendants.” Then Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 24:38

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

Genesis 24:5

But the servant asked, “What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?”

Genesis 28:1

Isaac called Jacob, greeted him, and told him, “Don't marry a Canaanite.

Genesis 28:2

Go instead to Mesopotamia, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel, and marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada chose two wives for King Joash, and they bore him sons and daughters.

Hebrews 11:15

They did not keep thinking about the country they had left; if they had, they would have had the chance to return.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother asked him, “Why do you have to go to those heathen Philistines to get a wife? Can't you find someone in our own clan, among all our people?” But Samson told his father, “She is the one I want you to get for me. I like her.”