Genesis 24:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you shall go to my country and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

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  • Gen 28:2 : 2 Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.
  • Gen 11:25-12:1 : 25 And Nahor lived after he begot Terah one hundred and nineteen years and begot sons and daughters. 26 And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your descendants will I give this land: and there he built an altar to the LORD, who appeared to him.
  • Gen 22:20-23 : 20 And it happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor; 21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel. 23 And Bethuel begot Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

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  • Gen 24:37-41
    5 verses
    92%

    37Now my master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

    38but you shall go to my father's house and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.'

    39And I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'

    40But he said to me, 'The LORD, before whom I walk, will send His angel with you and prosper your way; and you shall take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father's house.

    41You will be clear from this oath when you arrive among my family, for if they will not give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.'

  • Gen 24:5-8
    4 verses
    86%

    5And the servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?"

    6And Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not take my son back there.

    7The LORD God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my relatives, and who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

    8And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there."

  • Gen 28:1-6
    6 verses
    85%

    1And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and commanded him, and said to him, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

    2Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father; and take yourself a wife from there of the daughters of Laban your mother's brother.

    3And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that you may be a multitude of people;

    4And give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your descendants with you; that you may inherit the land where you are a stranger, which God gave to Abraham.

    5And Isaac sent Jacob away: and he went to Padanaram to Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

    6When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padanaram, to take himself a wife from there; and that as he blessed him he commanded him, saying, You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan;

  • Gen 24:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please, put your hand under my thigh,

    3and I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.

  • Gen 24:51
    80%

    51Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as the LORD has spoken."

  • Gen 24:14-15
    2 verses
    79%

    14Now let it be that the young woman to whom I say, 'Please let down your pitcher that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I will give your camels a drink also'—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. And by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master."

    15And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 24:58
    77%

    58Then they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" And she said, "I will go."

  • Gen 24:43-44
    2 verses
    76%

    43behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass that when the virgin comes out to draw water, and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,"

    44and she says to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master's son.'

  • Gen 24:48
    76%

    48And I bowed my head and worshiped the LORD, and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take the daughter of my master's brother for his son.

  • Gen 24:66
    75%

    66And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

  • Gen 24:61
    75%

    61Then Rebekah and her maids arose, and they rode on the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.

  • Gen 27:45-46
    2 verses
    75%

    45Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him: then I will send and get you from there: why should I be deprived of both of you in one day?

    46And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these who are of the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?

  • Gen 25:20
    75%

    20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Padan Aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

  • Gen 12:19
    74%

    19Why did you say, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me as a wife: now therefore behold your wife, take her, and go your way.

  • Josh 24:3
    74%

    3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 24:23
    74%

    23and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father's house for us to lodge?"

  • Gen 24:10
    74%

    10Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, for all his master's goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

  • Gen 26:2
    74%

    2And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land which I shall tell you of: