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Genesis 24:39

Then I saide vnto my master, What if the woman will not follow me?

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Genesis 24:39 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’

WEB World English Bible

I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’

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36 And Sarah my masters wife hath borne a sonne to my master, when she was olde, and vnto him hath he giuen all that he hath.

37 Now my master made me sweare, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

38 But thou shalt go vnto my fathers house and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne.

39 Then I saide vnto my master, What if the woman will not follow me?

40 Who answered me, The Lord, before who I walke, will send his Angel with thee, and prosper thy iourney, and thou shalt take a wife for my sonne of my kinred and my fathers house.

41 Then shalt thou be discharged of mine othe, when thou commest to my kinred: and if they giue thee not one, thou shalt be free from mine othe.

42 So I came this day to the well, and said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if thou nowe prosper my iourney which I goe,

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