Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For thou shalt go to my land and to my native country, and take a wife to my son, to Isaak.
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.
American Standard Version
But thou shalt go unto 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.
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
Yalak
'erets
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 24:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Isaac And Rebekah
3 And I will cause thee to swear by Jehovah, God of the heavens, and God of the earth, that thou wilt not take a wife to my son, from the daughters of the Canaanites in the midst of whom I shall dwell. 4 For thou shalt go to my land and to my native country, and take a wife to my son, to Isaak. 5 And the servant will say to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to come after me to this land: shall I turning back, turn back your son to the land from whence thou camest?
Cross References
Genesis 28:2
Rising, go to Padan Aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father, and take to thee from thence a wife from the daughters of Laban, thy mother's brother.
Genesis 11:25-1
And Nahor will live after his begetting Terah, nineteen years and a hundred years, and he will beget sons and daughters.
Genesis 12:7
And Jehovah shall be seen to Abram, and will say, To thy seed will I give this land, and he will build there an altar to Jehovah, being seen to him.
Genesis 22:20-23
And it shall be after these words, it will be announced to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also will bring forth sons to Nahor, thy brother.