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Genesis 24:38 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’ "

Genesis 24:38

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36 Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

37 My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

38 but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

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

40 He said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.

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Exodus 21:4

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"If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself."

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"Beware, my child, of all fornication, and take first a wife of the seed of your fathers. Don’t take a strange wife, who is not of your father’s tribe; for we are the descendants of the prophets. Remember, my child, that Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, our fathers of old time, all took wives of their kindred, and were blessed in their children, and their seed will inherit the land."

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1 Chronicles 28:6

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"He said to me, ‘Solomon, your son, shall build my house and my courts; for I have chosen him to be my son, and I will be his father."

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Genesis 24:1

"Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things."

Genesis 24:2

"Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh."

Genesis 24:3

"I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live."

Genesis 24:4

"But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”"

Genesis 24:5

"The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”"

Genesis 24:6

"Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again."

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