Genesis 24:38

Plain English Version

No, you have to go to my father’s family and my other relatives, and get a wife for my son.’

Cross References

Genesis 12:1

This story about Abram started when God said to him, “Abram, I want you to leave your country, your father’s family and all your relatives, and go to the country that I will show you.

Genesis 24:37

Then Abraham’s worker said, “My boss Abraham got me to make him a strong promise. He said, ‘Promise me that you will not get a wife for my son from this country that we are living in. Don’t get him a wife from the Canaan people that live here.

Genesis 24:39

Then I said to my boss Abraham, ‘Maybe I will pick a woman, and that woman will not want to leave her home country and come with me here, to Canaan country. Then what do you want me to do?’

Genesis 24:4

No, I want you to go back to my home country and get a wife for Isaac from my relatives.”