Genesis 24:37

Abraham's Servant Finds A Wife For Isaac

³⁶ Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns. ³⁷ My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live ³⁸ but will go to my father’s household and to my family to take a wife for my son.’

Land of Canaan

Swear an Oath

Take an Oath

Canaanites

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of mankind were beautiful, and they took any they chose as wives for themselves.

Genesis 24:2-9

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

Genesis 27:46

So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob marries a Hittite woman like one of them, what good is my life?”

Ezra 9:1-3

After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said: “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.