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The servant asked Abraham, ‘What should I do if the woman will not agree? Maybe she will not come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son to the country that you came from?’

Abraham replied, ‘No! You must never take my son back there. The Lord, the God of heaven, took me away from there. He took me out of my father's house. He took me away from the land where my family lives. God made a serious promise to me. He said, “I will give this land to your descendants.” Because God has promised this, he will send his angel to go in front of you. When you arrive there, you will find a woman to marry my son.

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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