Now Abraham was old, well advanced in
age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
2 So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who
ruled over all that he had, “Please, put your hand under my thigh,
3 “And I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven
and the God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the
daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell;
4 “But you shall go to my country and to my family, and
take a wife for my son Isaac.”
5 And the servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman will not
be willing to follow me to this land.
Must I take your son back to the land from which you came?”
6 But Abraham said to him, “Beware that you do not take my
son back there.
7 “The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father’s
house and from the land of my family, and who spoke to me and swore to me,
saying, “To your descendants I give this land,”
He will send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son
from there.
8 “And if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you
will be released from this oath; only do not take my son back there.”
9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham
his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.
10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and
departed, for all his master’s goods were in his hand. And he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the
city of Nahor.
11 And he made his camels kneel down outside the city by a
well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.
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