Abraham Seeks a Wife for Isaac

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Nowe Abraham was olde, and striken in yeeres, and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

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Therefore Abraham saide vnto his eldest seruant of his house, which had the rule ouer all that he had, Put nowe thine hand vnder my thigh,

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And I will make thee sweare by ye Lord God of the heauen, and God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife vnto my sonne of the daughters of the Canaanites among who I dwel.

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But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sone Izhak.

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And the seruant saide to him, What if the woman will not come with me to this land? shall I bring thy sonne againe vnto the lande from whence thou camest?

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To whom Abraham answered, Beware that thou bring not my sonne thither againe.

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The Lord God of heauen, who tooke me from my fathers house, and from the land where I was borne, and that spake vnto me, and that sware vnto me, saying, Vnto thy seede wil I giue this land, he shall send his Angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife vnto my sonne from thence.

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Neuertheles if the woman wil not follow thee, then shalt thou bee discharged of this mine othe: onely bring not my sonne thither againe.

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Then the seruant put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his master, and sware to him for this matter.

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