but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
Parallel translations
- KJV But thou shalt go unto my father’s house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.
- BSB but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’
- NKJV but you shall go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’
- NASB but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
- NLT Go instead to my father’s house, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son.’
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Cross-references · 3
- Gen 24:4But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
- Gen 31:19Now Laban had gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.
- Gen 12:1Now Yahweh said to Abram, “Leave your country, and your relatives, and your father’s house, and go to the land that I will show you.
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