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And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?

And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

¶ The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

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The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land?(A) Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?(B)

“Make sure that you do not take my son back there,”(C) Abraham said. “The Lord, the God of heaven,(D) who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land(E) and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[a](F) I will give this land’(G)—he will send his angel before you(H) so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:7 Or seed