Genesis 24:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again."

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  • Josh 2:17-20 : 17 The men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear. 18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household. 19 It shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him. 20 But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
  • Num 30:5 : 5 But if her father disallow her in the day that he hears, none of her vows, or of her bonds with which she has bound her soul, shall stand: and Yahweh will forgive her, because her father disallowed her.
  • Num 30:8 : 8 But if her husband disallow her in the day that he hears it, then he shall make void her vow which is on her, and the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul: and Yahweh will forgive her.
  • Gen 24:4-6 : 4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac." 5 The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?" 6 Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.
  • Josh 9:20 : 20 This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.
  • John 8:32 : 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
  • Acts 7:2 : 2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

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    37My 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,

    38but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

    39I said to my master, 'What if the woman will not follow me?'

    40He 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.

    41Then 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.'

    42I came this day to the spring, and said, 'Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go.

    43Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes forth to draw, to whom I will say, Give me, I pray you, a little water from your pitcher to drink.

    44She will tell me, "Drink, and I will also draw for your camels." Let the same be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master's son.'

  • Gen 24:2-7
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    2Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, "Please put your hand under my thigh.

    3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.

    4But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."

    5The servant said to him, "What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?"

    6Abraham said to him, "Beware that you don't bring my son there again.

    7Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

  • Gen 24:9-10
    2 verses
    79%

    9The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

    10The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having all goodly things of his master's in his hand. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

  • Gen 24:48-49
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    48I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.

    49Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me. That I may turn to the right hand, or to the left."

  • Gen 24:14
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    14Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink.' She will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.' Let the same be she who you have appointed for your servant Isaac. Thereby will I know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Gen 24:51
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    51Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."

  • Gen 21:23-24
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    23Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

    24Abraham said, "I will swear."

  • Gen 44:32
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    32For your servant became collateral for the boy to my father, saying, 'If I don't bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.'

  • Gen 24:58
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    58They called Rebekah, and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

  • Gen 24:12
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    12He said, "Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 24:23
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    23and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father's house for us to lodge in?"

  • Deut 25:7-8
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    7If the man doesn't want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.

    8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, I don't want to take her;

  • Deut 15:16
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    16It shall be, if he tell you, I will not go out from you; because he loves you and your house, because he is well with you;

  • Gen 34:17
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    17But if you will not listen to us, to be circumcised, then we will take our sister,{Hebrew has, literally, "daughter"} and we will be gone."

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

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    56He said to them, "Don't hinder me, seeing Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."

  • Gen 44:34
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    34For how will I go up to my father, if the boy isn't with me? Lest I see the evil that will come on my father."

  • Josh 2:17
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    17The men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.

  • Gen 31:50
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    50If you will afflict my daughters, and if you will take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you."

  • Gen 26:3
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    3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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    2Arise, go to Paddan Aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother's father. Take a wife from there from the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

  • Gen 24:27
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    27He said, "Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me in the way to the house of my master's relatives."

  • Gen 44:30
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    30Now therefore when I come to your servant my father, and the boy is not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the boy's life;

  • Gen 24:21
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    21The man looked steadfastly at her, holding his peace, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.

  • Gen 12:19
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    19Why did you say, 'She is my sister,' so that I took her to be my wife? Now therefore, see your wife, take her, and go your way."