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Genesis 24:40

And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.

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ASV

And he said unto me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:

KJV

And he said unto me, The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559 →
אֵלָ֑י'e.Laito meH413 →
יְהוָ֞הYah.wehYahwehH3068 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-whomH834 →
הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּיhit.ha.Lakh.tiI have walked aboutH1980 →
לְפָנָ֗יוle.fa.Nav<to> before himH6440 →
יִשְׁלַ֨חyish.Lachhe will sendH7971 →
מַלְאָכ֤וֹmal.'a.Khoangel hisH4397 →
אִתָּךְ֙'i.toKhwith youH854 →
וְהִצְלִ֣יחַve.hitz.Li.achand he will make successfulH6743 →
דַּרְכֶּ֔ךָdar.Ke.khajourney yourH1870 →
וְלָקַחְתָּ֤ve.la.kach.Taand you will takeH3947 →
אִשָּׁה֙'i.Shaha wifeH802 →
לִבְנִ֔יliv.Nifor son myH1121 →
מִמִּשְׁפַּחְתִּ֖יmi.mish.pach.Tifrom family myH4940 →
וּמִבֵּ֥יתu.mi.Beitand from [the] household ofH1004 →
אָבִֽי׃'a.Vifather myH1 →

The walk

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Exodus 23:20Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.Zechariah 10:12I will strengthen them in the LORD, and in His name they will walk,” declares the LORD.Psalms 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.Genesis 5:24Enoch walked with God, and then he was no more, because God had taken him away.Exodus 33:2And I will send an angel before you, and I will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.Genesis 17:1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.Genesis 6:9This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.2 Kings 20:3“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.Daniel 3:28Nebuchadnezzar declared, “Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him. They violated the king’s command and risked their lives rather than serve or worship any god except their own God.1 Kings 8:23and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.Psalms 1:3He is like a tree planted by streams of water, yielding its fruit in season, whose leaf does not wither, and who prospers in all he does.Revelation 22:16“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”Genesis 5:22And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.Psalms 91:11For He will command His angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.Genesis 24:7The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.Hebrews 1:14Are not the angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?Genesis 48:15Then he blessed Joseph and said: “May the God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has been my shepherd all my life to this day,Revelation 22:8And I am John, who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things.

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