Genesis 24:6

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And Abraham saith unto him, `Take heed to thyself, lest thou cause my son to turn back thither;

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  • Gal 5:1 : 1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
  • Heb 10:39 : 39 and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.
  • Heb 11:9 : 9 by faith he did sojourn in the land of the promise as a strange country, in tabernacles having dwelt with Isaac and Jacob, fellow-heirs of the same promise,
  • Heb 11:13-16 : 13 In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted `them', and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, 14 for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; 15 and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, 16 but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.
  • 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, 21 for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged `it', to turn back from the holy command delivered to them, 22 and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself -- to rolling in mire.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 24:2-5
    4 verses
    85%

    2and Abraham saith unto his servant, the eldest of his house, who is ruling over all that he hath, `Put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh,

    3and I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou dost not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in the midst of whom I am dwelling;

    4but unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.'

    5And the servant saith unto him, `It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?'

  • Gen 24:7-9
    3 verses
    82%

    7Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

    8and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.'

    9And the servant putteth his hand under the thigh of Abraham his lord, and sweareth to him concerning this matter.

  • Gen 24:37-41
    5 verses
    78%

    37`And my lord causeth me to swear, saying, Thou dost not take a wife to my son from the daughters of the Canaanite, in whose land I am dwelling.

    38If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

    39`And I say unto my lord, It may be the woman doth not come after me;

    40and he saith unto me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked habitually, doth send His messenger with thee, and hath prospered thy way, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father;

    41then art thou acquitted from my oath, when thou comest unto my family, and if they give not `one' to thee; then thou hast been acquitted from my oath.

  • Gen 22:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10and Abraham putteth forth his hand, and taketh the knife -- to slaughter his son.

    11And the messenger of Jehovah calleth unto him from the heavens, and saith, `Abraham, Abraham;' and he saith, `Here `am' I;'

    12and He saith, `Put not forth thine hand unto the youth, nor do anything to him, for now I have known that thou art fearing God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one, from Me.'

  • Gen 21:23-24
    2 verses
    74%

    23and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

    24And Abraham saith, `I -- I do swear.'

  • Gen 22:5
    74%

    5and Abraham saith unto his young men, `Remain by yourselves here with the ass, and I and the youth go yonder and worship, and turn back unto you.'

  • Gen 26:2
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    2And Jehovah appeareth unto him, and saith, `Go not down towards Egypt, tabernacle in the land concerning which I speak unto thee,

  • Gen 24:34
    73%

    34And he saith, `I `am' Abraham's servant;

  • Gen 24:12
    73%

    12And he saith, `Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, cause to meet, I pray Thee, before me this day -- (and do kindness with my lord Abraham;

  • Gen 20:11
    73%

    11And Abraham saith, `Because I said, `Surely the fear of God is not in this place, and they have slain me for the sake of my wife;

  • Gen 22:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And it cometh to pass after these things that God hath tried Abraham, and saith unto him, `Abraham;' and he saith, `Here `am' I.'

    2And He saith, `Take, I pray thee, thy son, thine only one, whom thou hast loved, even Isaac, and go for thyself unto the land of Moriah, and cause him to ascend there for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains of which I speak unto thee.'

  • Gen 44:34
    73%

    34for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

  • Gen 22:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15And the messenger of Jehovah calleth unto Abraham a second time from the heavens,

    16and saith, `By Myself I have sworn -- the affirmation of Jehovah -- that because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only one --

  • Gen 44:32
    72%

    32for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee -- then I have sinned against my father all the days.

  • Gen 42:38
    72%

    38and he saith, `My son doth not go down with you, for his brother `is' dead, and he by himself is left; when mischief hath met him in the way in which ye go, then ye have brought down my grey hairs in sorrow to sheol.'

  • Josh 24:3
    72%

    3and I take your father Abraham from beyond the River, and cause him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiply his seed, and give to him Isaac.

  • Gen 44:30
    72%

    30`And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

  • Gen 18:16
    72%

    16And the men rise from thence, and look on the face of Sodom, and Abraham is going with them to send them away;

  • Gen 12:1
    71%

    1And Jehovah saith unto Abram, `Go for thyself, from thy land, and from thy kindred, and from the house of thy father, unto the land which I shew thee.

  • Gen 26:24
    71%

    24and Jehovah appeareth unto him during that night, and saith, `I `am' the God of Abraham thy father, fear not, for I `am' with thee, and have blessed thee, and have multiplied thy seed, because of Abraham My servant;'