Genesis 24:38
New International Version
but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’

New Living Translation
Go instead to my father’s house, to my relatives, and find a wife there for my son.’

English Standard Version
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.’

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

King James Bible
But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

New King James Version
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’

New American Standard Bible
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

NASB 1995
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

NASB 1977
but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

Legacy Standard Bible
but you shall go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’

Amplified Bible
but you shall [instead] go to my father’s house and to my family and take a wife for my son [Isaac].’

Christian Standard Bible
but will go to my father’s family and to my clan to take a wife for my son.’

Holman Christian Standard Bible
but will go to my father’s household and to my family to take a wife for my son.’

American Standard Version
but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But go to the house of my father and to my family and take a woman for my son from there.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But thou shalt go to the house of my father, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take thence a wife for my son.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, go back to the land where I was born and find a wife for my son from among my relatives."

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:

English Revised Version
but thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Instead, go to my father's home and to my relatives, and get my son a wife.'

Good News Translation
Instead, go to my father's people, to my relatives, and choose a wife for him.'

International Standard Version
Instead, you are to go to my father's household, to my relatives, and choose a wife for my son there.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

Literal Standard Version
If not—to the house of my father you go, and to my family, and you have taken a wife for my son.

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

New American Bible
instead, you must go to my father’s house, to my own family, to get a wife for my son.’

NET Bible
but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.'

New Revised Standard Version
but you shall go to my father’s house, to my kindred, and get a wife for my son.’

New Heart English Bible
but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

Webster's Bible Translation
But thou shalt go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son.

World English Bible
but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’

Young's Literal Translation
If not -- unto the house of my father thou dost go, and unto my family, and thou hast taken a wife for my son.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Rebekah is Chosen
37My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell, 38but you shall go to my father’s house and to my kindred to take a wife for my son.’ 39Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’…

Cross References
Genesis 24:37
My master made me swear an oath and said, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,

Genesis 24:39
Then I asked my master, 'What if the woman will not come back with me?'


Treasury of Scripture

But you shall go to my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife to my son.

But.

Genesis 24:4
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

Genesis 12:1
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

my father's.

See

Genesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.

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Genesis 24
1. Abraham swears his servant.
10. The servant's journey.
12. His prayer.
14. His sign.
15. Rebekah meets him;
18. fulfils his sign;
22. receives jewels;
23. shows her kindred;
25. and invites him home.
26. The servant blesses God.
29. Laban entertains him.
34. The servant shows his message.
50. Laban and Bethuel approve it.
58. Rebekah consents to go, and departs.
62. Isaac meets and marries her.














(38) Kindred.--Not the word so translated in Genesis 24:4; Genesis 24:7, but that rendered family in Genesis 8:19, marg., 10:5, 12:3, &c. Strictly, it signifies a subdivision of a tribe (Numbers 1:18).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you shall go
תֵּלֵ֖ךְ (tê·lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

my father’s
אָבִ֛י (’ā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1: Father

house
בֵּית־ (bêṯ-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

and to
וְאֶל־ (wə·’el-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

my kindred
מִשְׁפַּחְתִּ֑י (miš·paḥ·tî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4940: A family, circle of relatives, a class, a species, sort, a tribe, people

to take
וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ (wə·lā·qaḥ·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3947: To take

a wife
אִשָּׁ֖ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

for my son.’
לִבְנִֽי׃ (liḇ·nî)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 1121: A son


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