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Genesis 24:38
Genesis 24:38 is verse 38 of Genesis chapter 24, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
King James Version
But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
World English Bible
but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
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Genesis 24:36–40 · Berean Standard Bible
36 My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
37 My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
39 Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
40 And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 24:4but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Genesis 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.