Add parallel Print Page Options

“Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said to him. Yahweh Elohim of heaven took me from my father’s home and the land of my family. He spoke to me and swore this oath: ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’

Elohim will send his angel ahead of you, and you will get my son a wife from there. If the woman doesn’t want to come back with you, then you’ll be free from this oath that you swear to me. But don’t take my son back there.”

Read full chapter

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

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 24:7 Or seed