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Key: khaki:verbs.
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JPSBut thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son, even for Isaac.'
ASVbut thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
DRABut that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.
YLTbut unto my land and unto my kindred dost thou go, and hast taken a wife for my son, for Isaac.'
Drbybut thou shalt go to my land and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
RVbut thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
WbstrBut thou shalt go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.
KJB-1769But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. (But thou/you shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. )
KJB-1611But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isaac. (But thou/you shalt go unto my country, and to my kinred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.)
BshpsBut thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac. (But thou/you shalt go unto my country, and to my kinred, and take a wife unto my son Isahac.)
GnvaBut thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sone Izhak. (But thou/you shalt go unto my country, and to my kinred, and take a wife unto my son Izhak. )
Cvdlbut that thou go in to my countre? and to myne owne kynred, and brynge my sonne Isaac a wife. (but that thou/you go in to my country? and to mine own kynred, and bring my son Isaac a wife.)
Wyclbut that thou go to my lond and kynrede, and therof take a wijf to my sone Ysaac. (but that thou/you go to my land and kynrede, and thereof take a wife to my son Ysaac.)
Luthsondern daß du ziehest in mein Vaterland und zu meiner Freundschaft und nehmest meinem Sohn Isaak ein Weib. (rather that you ziehest in my fatherland/homeland and to my Freundschaft and nehmest my son Isaak a woman.)
ClVgsed ad terram et cognationem meam proficiscaris et inde accipias uxorem filio meo Isaac. (sed to the_earth/land and cognationem meam proficiscaris and inde accipias wife filio mine Isaac. )
24:1-67 Isaac’s marriage to Rebekah ensured that God’s plan would continue into the next generation. God showed covenant faithfulness by working through his faithful people (24:12, 27, 49).
Alternate translation: “Instead, you must go” or “Instead, I want you to go”
אֶל אַרְצִ֛י
to/towards country,my
Alternate translation: “to my home country” or “to the region where I grew up” or “to the country that I came from”
וְאֶל מוֹלַדְתִּ֖י
and=near/to family,my
Alternate translation: “to my kinfolk who live there,”
וְלָקַחְתָּ֥ אִשָּׁ֖ה לִבְנִ֥י לְיִצְחָֽק
and,take woman/wife for,son,my for,Isaac
The way you refer to Isaac here will depend on how you referred to him in verse 3. Alternate translation: “and find a wife from there for my son Isaac to marry.” or “and get a wife from among them for him to marry.” or “and arrange for him to marry one of their daughters.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
