Genesis 24:9

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So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

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  • Gen 24:2 : 2 Abraham said to his servant, the eldest in his household who managed all he owned, "Please, place your hand under my thigh.

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  • Gen 24:1-8
    8 verses
    92%

    1Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in every way.

    2Abraham said to his servant, the eldest in his household who managed all he owned, "Please, place your hand under my thigh.

    3I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not choose a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.

    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land you came from?"

    6Abraham said to him, "Make sure that you do not take my son back there.

    7The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's household and my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your descendants I will give this land,' will send His angel before you so that you can find a wife for my son there.

    8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. But do not take my son back there."

  • Gen 21:23-24
    2 verses
    79%

    23Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me, my children, or my descendants. Show to me and the land where you have lived the same kindness I have shown to you.

    24Abraham said, 'I swear it.'

  • Gen 24:34-39
    6 verses
    77%

    34So he said, "I am Abraham’s servant.

    35The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

    36Sarah, my master’s wife, bore him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

    37My master made me swear an oath, saying, 'You must not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live.

    38Instead, you must go to my father's household and to my family to take a wife for my son.'

    39Then I said to my master, 'What if the woman does not come back with me?'

  • Gen 24:10-12
    3 verses
    77%

    10The servant took ten camels from his master’s herds and set out, taking with him all kinds of good gifts from his master. He went to Aram Naharaim, to the city of Nahor.

    11He had the camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

    12Then he prayed, "Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show kindness to my master Abraham."

  • Gen 24:48-49
    2 verses
    75%

    48Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right path to take the daughter of my master’s kinsman for his son.

    49Now if you are willing to show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me. If not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.

  • Gen 22:16
    74%

    16and said, 'By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • Gen 24:51-52
    2 verses
    74%

    51Here is Rebekah; take her and go. Let her become the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken.

    52When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.

  • Gen 22:9-10
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    74%

    9When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood on it, bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

    10Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.

  • Gen 24:41-43
    3 verses
    73%

    41'You will be released from my oath if you go to my family and they refuse to give her to you. Then you will be free from my oath.'

    42So today I came to the spring and prayed, 'Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you are making my journey successful,

    43see, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"

  • Gen 24:14
    73%

    14May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Gen 24:66
    72%

    66Then the servant recounted to Isaac everything he had done.

  • Gen 17:23-24
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    23On that very day, Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or bought with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and circumcised them, as God had told him.

    24Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

  • Gen 44:32-33
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    72%

    32For your servant took responsibility for the boy before my father, saying, 'If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.'

    33Now, therefore, please let your servant remain here as a slave to my lord in place of the boy, and let the boy return with his brothers.

  • Gen 21:30
    71%

    30He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

  • Gen 31:53
    71%

    53May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.' So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

  • Gen 22:12
    71%

    12The angel said, 'Do not lay a hand on the boy. Do not harm him in any way, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.'

  • Heb 6:13
    71%

    13For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

  • Luke 1:73
    71%

    73the oath that He swore to our father Abraham, to grant us:

  • Ps 105:9
    71%

    9The covenant He made with Abraham, and His oath to Isaac.

  • Gen 26:3
    71%

    3Stay in this land, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your descendants and will fulfill the oath I swore to Abraham your father.

  • Josh 24:3
    70%

    3But I took your ancestor Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac.

  • Gen 17:9
    70%

    9Then God said to Abraham, "As for you, you shall keep My covenant, you and your descendants after you for the generations to come.

  • Gen 23:12
    70%

    12Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.

  • Gen 28:4
    70%

    4May he give to you and your descendants with you the blessing of Abraham, that you may take possession of the land where you now live as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.