Genesis 24:55

New American Bible - revised edition

Her brother and mother replied, “Let the young woman stay with us a short while, say ten days; after that she may go.”

Cross References

Genesis 24:56

But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the Lord has made my journey successful; let me go back to my master.”

Genesis 4:3

In the course of time Cain brought an offering to the Lord from the fruit of the ground,

Leviticus 25:29

When someone sells a dwelling in a walled town, it can be redeemed up to a full year after its sale—the redemption period is one year.

Judges 14:8

Later, when he came back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the remains of the lion, and there was a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, and honey.

Judges 19:4

His father-in-law, the young woman’s father, urged him to stay, and so he spent three days eating and drinking and passing the night there.