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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?”

Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again. Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

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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