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3 I want you to swear by the LORD God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I'm living. 4 Instead, you will go to the land of my relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.| 5 The servant asked him, |What if the woman doesn't want to come back to this land with me? Should I take your son all the way back to the land you came from?| 6 |Make sure that you do not take my son back there,| Abraham said to him. 7 |The LORD God 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.' |God will send his angel ahead of you, and you will get my son a wife from there. 8 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.| 9 So the servant did as his master Abraham commanded and swore the oath to him concerning this. Genesis 24:3-9, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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