Genesis 24:38

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’”

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BSBPD

“but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 24:38 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 12:1Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
  2. Genesis 24:4but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
  3. Genesis 31:19Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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