Genesis 24:5
Good News Translation
But the servant asked, "What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?"

New Revised Standard Version
The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land; must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

Contemporary English Version
But the servant asked, "What if the young woman I choose refuses to leave home and come here with me? Should I send Isaac there to look for a wife?"

New American Bible
The servant asked him: “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?

Peradventure.

Genesis 24:58 And they called her, and when she was come, they asked: Wilt thou go with this man? She said: I will go.

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Exodus 9:2 But if thou refuse, and withhold them still:

Proverbs 13:16 The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly.

Jeremiah 4:2 And thou shalt swear: As the Lord liveth, in truth, and in judgment, and in justice: and the Gentiles shall bless him, and shall praise him.

Context
A Wife for Isaac
4But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac. 5The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place from whence thou camest out?6And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:4
But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

Genesis 24:39
But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with me?

Genesis 24:4
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