Genesis 24:4 BSB — MannaFest

Genesis 24:4

but will go to my country and my kindred to take a wife for my son Isaac.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

but thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.

KJV

But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

My country - Mesopotamia, called here Abraham’s country, because it was the place where the family of Haran, his brother, had settled; and where himself had remained a considerable time with his father Terah.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Thus God swears his servants to their work, that, having sworn, they may perform it. Honour is here done to the eternal God; for he it is that is sworn by, to whom alone these appeals ought to be made. And some think honour is done to the covenant of circumcision by the ceremony here used of putting his hand under his thigh.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּ֧י	ki	for	H3588 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אַרְצִ֛י	'ar.Tzi	land my	H776 →
וְאֶל־	ve.'el-	and to	H413 →
מוֹלַדְתִּ֖י	mo.lad.Ti	kindred my	H4138 →
תֵּלֵ֑ךְ	te.Lekh	you will go	H1980 →
וְלָקַחְתָּ֥	ve.la.kach.Ta	and you will take	H3947 →
אִשָּׁ֖ה	'i.Shah	a wife	H802 →
לִבְנִ֥י	liv.Ni	for son my	H1121 →
לְיִצְחָֽק׃	le.yitz.Chak	for Isaac	H3327 →

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

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 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
leads to
- Genesis 17:8
  And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
- Genesis 17:1
  When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- Genesis 13:15
  for all the land that you see, I will give to you and your offspring forever.
- Galatians 3:16
  The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.
- Genesis 18:1
  Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
Through
Genesis 28:2
“Go at once to Paddan-aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel, and take a wife from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
leads to
- Genesis 25:20
  and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.
- Hosea 12:12
  Jacob fled to the land of Aram and Israel worked for a wife—for a wife he tended sheep.
- Genesis 32:10
  I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.