Genesis 24:38

New American Bible - revised edition

instead, you must go to my father’s house, to my own family, to get a wife for my son.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

The Lord said to Abram: Go forth from your land, your relatives, and from your father’s house to a land that I will show you.

Genesis 24:37

My master put me under oath, saying: ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live;

Genesis 24:39

When I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

Genesis 24:4

but that you will go to my own land and to my relatives to get a wife for my son Isaac.”

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.