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Genesis 24:39
“I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?”
Verse in context — Genesis 24
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My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,
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but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.
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I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?
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He said to me, 'Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son of my relatives, and of my father's house.
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Then will you be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don't give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.
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