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Genesis 24:9
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
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Genesis 24:9 in other translations
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him concerning that matter.
So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
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In context
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.
10 The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
11 He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
12 He said, “LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
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