Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
New American Standard Bible
but you will go to
King James Version
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Holman Bible
but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
International Standard Version
Instead, you are to go to my country and to my family and acquire a wife for my son Isaac."
A Conservative Version
But thou shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
Amplified
but you will [instead] go to my [former] country (Mesopotamia) and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac [the heir of the covenant promise].”
Bible in Basic English
But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
Darby Translation
but thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
Julia Smith Translation
For thou shalt go to my land and to my native country, and take a wife to my son, to Isaak.
King James 2000
But you shall go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
Lexham Expanded Bible
but that you will go to my land and to my family, and take a wife for my son, for Isaac."
Modern King James verseion
But you shall go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife to my son Isaac.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But shalt go unto my country and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son Isaac."
NET Bible
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
New Heart English Bible
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
The Emphasized Bible
but unto my own land and unto my own kindred, wilt go, - So shalt thou take a wife for my son - for Isaac.
Webster
But thou shalt go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
World English Bible
But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac."
Youngs Literal Translation
but unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.'
Themes
Parents » Their duty to their children is » Not to make unholy connections for them
Servants » When good » Deserve the confidence of their masters
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 24:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Isaac And Rebekah
3 And I will make thee swear by Jehovah, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell. 4 But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac. 5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land. Must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
Cross References
Genesis 28:2
Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father. And take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother.
Genesis 11:25-1
and Nahor lived after he begat Terah a hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.
Genesis 12:7
And Jehovah appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto Jehovah, who appeared unto him.
Genesis 22:20-23
And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto they brother Nahor.