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Selected Verse: Genesis 24:3 - Strong Concordance

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Ge 24:3 Strong Concordance And I will make thee swear [07650] by the LORD [03068], the God [0430] of heaven [08064], and the God [0430] of the earth [0776], that thou shalt not take [03947] a wife [0802] unto my son [01121] of the daughters [01323] of the Canaanites [03669], among [07130] whom I dwell [03427]:
  King James And I will make thee swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
thou shalt not take a wife, &c.--Among pastoral tribes the matrimonial arrangements are made by the parents, and a youth must marry, not among strangers, but in his own tribe--custom giving him a claim, which is seldom or never resisted, to the hand of his first cousin. But Abraham had a far higher motive--a fear lest, if his son married into a Canaanitish family, he might be gradually led away from the true God.
 
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25 And he said [0559], Cursed [0779] be Canaan [03667]; a servant [05650] of servants [05650] shall he be unto his brethren [0251].
9 And the servant [05650] put [07760] his hand [03027] under the thigh [03409] of Abraham [085] his master [0113], and sware [07650] to him concerning [05921] that [02088] matter [01697].