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Then I saide vnto my master, What if the woman will not follow me?
Genesis 24:39 · Geneva Bible
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And I said unto my master, Peradventure the woman will not follow me.
Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
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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