Parallel Verses
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.
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
I want you to swear by Jehovah God of heaven and earth that you will not get my son a wife from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living.
4 but you will go to
Cross References
Genesis 28:2
Go to Mesopotamia instead, to the home of your grandfather Bethuel. Marry one of the young women there, one of your uncle Laban's daughters.
Genesis 11:25-1
After he became the father of Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years and had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 12:7
Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: I will give this land to your offspring (seed). He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 22:20-23
Abraham's brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons.