Genesis 24:1-9 ▼

1 And Abraham [is] old, he has entered into days, and YHWH has blessed Abraham in all [things];

2 and Abraham says to his servant, the eldest of his house, who is ruling over all that he has, “Please put your hand under my thigh,

3 and I cause you to swear by YHWH, God of the heavens and God of the earth, that you do not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

4 but to my land and to my family you go, and have taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.”

5 And the servant says to him, “It may be the woman is not willing to come after me to this land; do I at all cause your son to return to the land from where you came out?”

6 And Abraham says to him, “Take heed to yourself lest you cause my son to return there;

7 YHWH, God of the heavens, who has taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He sends His messenger before you, and you have taken a wife for my son from there;

8 and if the woman is not willing to come after you, then you have been acquitted from this my oath: only you do not cause my son to return there.”

9 And the servant puts his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and swears to him concerning this matter.