Genesis 24:38 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 24:38

but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’

BSB

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ASV

but thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

KJV

But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

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Commentary

2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

But when he has the desired success, he worships God, not the angel. Whatever benefit we have by the ministration of angels, all the glory must be given to the Lord of the angels, Rev. xxii.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

He likewise obviates an objection, That, if Isaac were deserving, he needed not send so far off for a wife: why did he not marry nearer home? "For a good reason," says he; "my master's son must not match with a Canaanite."

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
לֹ֧א	lo'	not	H3808 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
בֵּית־	beit-	[the] house of	H1004 →
אָבִ֛י	'a.Vi	father my	H1 →
תֵּלֵ֖ךְ	te.Lekh	you will go	H1980 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
מִשְׁפַּחְתִּ֑י	mish.pach.Ti	family my	H4940 →
וְלָקַחְתָּ֥	ve.la.kach.Ta	and you will take	H3947 →
אִשָּׁ֖ה	'i.Shah	a wife	H802 →
לִבְנִֽי׃	liv.Ni	for son my	H1121 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H4940mishpachtifamily my303×

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 12:1
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:8
  By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, without knowing where he was going.
- Nehemiah 9:7
  You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Acts 7:2–6
  And Stephen declared: “Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham while he was still in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,
- Isaiah 51:2
  Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- Joshua 24:2–3
  And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and…
Through
Genesis 31:19
Now while Laban was out shearing his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
leads to
- 1 Samuel 19:13
  Then Michal took a household idol and laid it in the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
- Hosea 3:4
  For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Genesis 31:30
  Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s house. But why have you stolen my gods?”

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Genesis

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Genesis