Genesis 24:6
Genesis chapter 24 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
Context
v.5And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto the land from whence thou camest?
v.6This passage
v.7Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
- Galatians 5:1
For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
- Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.
- Hebrews 11:9
By faith he became a sojourner in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
- 2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first.