34-41 The servant said, “I’m the servant of Abraham. God has blessed my master—he’s a great man; God has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, servants and maidservants, camels and donkeys. And then to top it off, Sarah, my master’s wife, gave him a son in her old age and he has passed everything on to his son. My master made me promise, ‘Don’t get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live. No, go to my father’s home, back to my family, and get a wife for my son there.’ I said to my master, ‘But what if the woman won’t come with me?’ He said, ‘God before whom I’ve walked faithfully will send his angel with you and he’ll make things work out so that you’ll bring back a wife for my son from my family, from the house of my father. Then you’ll be free from the oath. If you go to my family and they won’t give her to you, you will also be free from the oath.’

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36 My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age,(A) and he has given him everything he owns.(B) 37 And my master made me swear an oath,(C) and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,(D) 38 but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’(E)

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