◄ Genesis 24:8 ►
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Good News Translation
If the young woman is not willing to come with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not under any circumstances take my son back there."

New Revised Standard Version
But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

Contemporary English Version
If the woman refuses to come along, you don't have to keep this promise. But don't ever take my son back there."

New American Bible
If the woman is unwilling to follow you, you will be released from this oath to me. But never take my son back there!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.

clear.

Numbers 30:5,8 But if her father, immediately as soon as he heard it, gainsaid it, both her vows and her oaths shall be void, neither shall she be bound to what she promised, because her father hath gainsaid it. . . .

Joshua 2:17-20 And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear, . . .

Joshua 9:20 But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:

John 8:32 And you shall know the truth: and the truth shall make you free.

only.

Genesis 24:4,5,6 But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac. . . .

Acts 7:2 Who said: Ye men, brethren and fathers, hear. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charan.

Context
A Wife for Isaac
…7The Lord God of heaven, who took me out of my father's house, and out of my native country, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: To thy seed will I give this land: he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son. 8But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.9The servant, therefore, put his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him upon his word.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said: Beware thou never bring my son back again thither.

Genesis 24:41
But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.

Joshua 2:17
And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which thou hast made us swear,

Genesis 24:7
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