Genesis 24:4

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.””

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BSBPD

“but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Genesis 24:4 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 11:25And after he had become the father of Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and had other sons and daughters.
  2. Genesis 12:7Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
  3. Genesis 22:20Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
  4. Genesis 24:38but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
  5. Genesis 28:2“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
  6. Judges 14:3But his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
  7. 2 Chronicles 24:3Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

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

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