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Genesis 24:6
Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
Genesis 24:6 · World English Bible
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Genesis 24:6 in other translations
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not bring my son there again.
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In context
3 I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.
4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
5 The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”
6 Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.
7 The LORD, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
8 If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”
9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
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