But thou shalt go unto my [a]country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

And the servant said to him, What if the woman will not come with me to this land? shall I bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

To whom Abraham answered, Beware that thou bring not my son [b]thither again.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:4 He would not that his son should marry out of the godly family: for the inconveniences that come by marrying with the ungodly are set forth in sundry places of the Scriptures.
  2. Genesis 24:6 Lest he should lose the inheritance promised.

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