Genesis 24:1-9

Isaac and Rebekah

1 Abraham was now very old, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
2 He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh.
3 I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
4 but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”
5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
6 “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.
7 “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[a] I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.
8 If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

Cross References 26

  • 1. S Genesis 17:17; Joshua 23:1
  • 2. Genesis 12:2; Galatians 3:9
  • 3. ver 35
  • 4. S Genesis 15:3
  • 5. Genesis 39:4-6
  • 6. ver 9; Genesis 47:29
  • 7. Genesis 47:31; Genesis 50:25
  • 8. ver 7
  • 9. S Genesis 14:19; S Numbers 20:14
  • 10. Genesis 28:1; Deuteronomy 7:3; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17
  • 11. S Genesis 10:15-19
  • 12. ver 37
  • 13. S Genesis 12:1; Genesis 28:2; Judges 14:3
  • 14. S ver 29; S Genesis 21:21
  • 15. ver 39
  • 16. Hebrews 11:15
  • 17. ver 8
  • 18. ver 3
  • 19. Genesis 12:1
  • 20. Romans 4:13; Galatians 3:16*
  • 21. S Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:15
  • 22. S Genesis 16:7; Exodus 23:20,23
  • 23. ver 41; Jos 2:12,17,20; Joshua 9:20
  • 24. S ver 6
  • 25. S ver 2
  • 26. Genesis 32:4; Genesis 33:8

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