But thou shalt go unto my country
Not Canaan, which though his by promise, yet not in possession,
but Mesopotamia, as appears from ( Genesis
24:10 ) ; which taken largely included the Chaldea, see (
Acts 7:2 ) , the
country where Abraham was born, and from whence he came:
and to my kindred;
the family of Nahor his brother, which now dwelt at Haran in
Mesopotamia, called the city of Nahor, ( Genesis
24:10 ) ; see ( Genesis 29:4
Genesis
29:5 ) ; of the increase of whose family Abraham had heard a
few years ago, ( Genesis
22:20-24 ) : and take a wife to my son
Isaac;
from among them, who though they were not clear of superstition
and idolatry, yet they worshipped the true God with their
"idols"; and a woman taken out of such a family, and removed at a
distance from it, it might be reasonably concluded would be
brought off of those things, and adhere to the pure and undefiled
religion; and the rather this family was chosen, not only because
related to Abraham, but because it had sprung from Shem, who was
blessed of God, and whose God the Lord was; nearness of kin was
no objection and hinderance to such a marriage, the laws relating
to marriage not being given till the time of Moses.