Genesis 24:8 Cross References - NSB

⁸ »You will be free from this oath if the woman is not willing to follow you. Only do not take my son back there.«

⁴ »Instead, you will go to the land of my relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.« ⁵ The servant asked: »What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?« ⁶ Abraham answered: »Make sure that you do not send my son back there!

⁵ »If her father forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. Jehovah will forgive her, because her father refused to let her keep it.

⁸ »If her husband forbids her to fulfill the vow when he hears about it, she is not required to keep it. Jehovah will forgive her.

¹⁷ The men said to her: »We will be free from this oath you made us swear. ¹⁸ »When we come into the land, tie this scarlet cord in the window from which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers and sisters and your father’s entire household into your home. ¹⁹ »Whoever goes out of your house into the street will be responsible for his own life. We will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is laid on him. ²⁰ »If you tell what we are doing we will be released from the oath you made us swear.«

²⁰ »This we will do to them. We will even let them live in case we become angry. This is because of the oath we swore to them.«

³² »You will know the truth and the truth will make you free!«

² He said: »Men, brothers and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran.