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Genesis 24:41

in Genesis 24

And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

KJV

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.

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This verse in Genesis 24

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

My master made me swear an oath

on Genesis 24:37-41

The servant repeats the oath exactly: no wife from the daughters of the Canaanites, and a wife from his master's kindred and his father's house. He includes the clause that sets him free if the family refuses to give her. He tells them an angel was promised for the road. The retelling runs to sixteen verses in a book that can cover a century in a line.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

proposed

Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath,.... See Gill on Gen 24:8.
Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath,.... See Gill on Gen 24:8.

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • אָ֤זthen

    ʾazH227 →141 times

  • תִּנָּקֶה֙you will be free

    tinakehH5352 →

  • מֵאָ֣לָתִ֔יfrom oath my

    mealatiH423 →35 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תָב֖וֹאyou will go

    tavo'H935 →2568 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מִשְׁפַּחְתִּ֑יfamily my

    mishpachtiH4940 →303 times

  • וְאִם־and if

    veim-H518 →1069 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יִתְּנוּ֙they will give [her]

    yitenuH5414 →2011 times

  • לָ֔ךְto <the> you

    lakh

  • וְהָיִ֥יתָand you will be

    vehayitaH1961 →3559 times

  • נָקִ֖יfree

    nakiH5355 →

  • מֵאָלָתִֽי׃from oath my

    mealatiH423 →35 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

3 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 29:12

    so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 15:12–15

      Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.

    • Exodus 19:5–6

      Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.

    • Deuteronomy 29:14

      I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

    • Deuteronomy 5:2–3

      The LORD our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

  • Through

    Genesis 24:8

    And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

    it leads to

    • Joshua 2:17–20

      The men said to her, “We will not be bound by this oath you made us swear

    • Numbers 30:8

      But if her husband prohibits her when he hears of it, he nullifies the vow that binds her or the rash promise she has made, and the LORD will absolve her.

    • Numbers 30:5

      But if her father prohibits her on the day he hears about it, then none of the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand. The LORD will absolve her because…

    • Joshua 9:20

      This is how we will treat them: We will let them live, so that no wrath will fall on us because of the oath we swore to them.”

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Eliezer and Rebekah at the Well — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Genesis: the study guide →Read Genesis 24 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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