Genesis 24:37
Good News Translation
My master made me promise with a vow to obey his command. He said, 'Do not choose a wife for my son from the young women in the land of Canaan.

New Revised Standard Version
My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;

Contemporary English Version
I solemnly promised my master that I would do what he said. And he told me, "Don't choose a wife for my son from the women in this land of Canaan.

New American Bible
My master put me under oath, saying: ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:

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And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:

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Genesis 24:2-9 And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh, . . .

Genesis 6:2 The sons of God seeing the daughters of men, that they were fair, took to themselves wives of all which they chose.

Genesis 27:46 And Rebecca said to Isaac: I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the stock of this land, I choose not to live.

Ezra 9:1-3 And after these things were accomplished, the princes came to me, saying: The people of Israel, and the priests and Levites have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, and from their abominations, namely, of the Chanaanites, and the Hethites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites, and the Ammonites, and the Moabites, and the Egyptians, and the Amorrhites. . . .

Canaanites.

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
36And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had. 37And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:38But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:…
Cross References
Genesis 24:2
And he said to the elder servant of his house, who was ruler over all he had: Put thy hand under my thigh,

Genesis 24:38
But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:

Genesis 24:36
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