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 [a]thither again.

¶ The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land where I was born, and that spake unto me, and that swear unto me, saying, (A)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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  1. Genesis 24:6 Lest he should lose the inheritance promised.

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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  1. Genesis 24:7 Or seed