Genesis 24:4

New International Reader's Version

Instead, promise me that you will go to my country and to my own relatives. Get a wife for my son Isaac from there.”

Cross References

Genesis 11:25

After Terah was born, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

Genesis 12:1

The Lord had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s family. Go to the land I will show you.

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram at Shechem. He said, “I will give this land to your family who comes after you.” So Abram built an altar there to honor the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 24:38

Instead, go to my father’s family and to my own relatives. Get a wife for my son there.’

Genesis 24:5

The servant asked Abraham, “What if the woman doesn’t want to come back with me to this land? Then should I take your son back to the country you came from?”

Genesis 28:1

So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him, “Don’t get married to a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 28:2

Go at once to Paddan Aram. Go to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Find a wife for yourself there. Take her from among the daughters of your mother’s brother Laban.

2 Chronicles 24:3

Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash. They had sons and daughters by Joash.

Hebrews 11:15

What if they had been thinking of the country they had left? Then they could have returned to it.

Judges 14:3

His father and mother replied, “Can’t we find a wife for you among your relatives? Isn’t there one among any of our people? Do you have to go to the Philistines to get a wife? They aren’t God’s people. They haven’t even been circumcised.” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.”