Genesis 24:5–11

⁵And the servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is not willing to follow me to this land; should I indeed take your son back to the land from where you came?”

⁶Then Abraham said to him, “^aBeware lest you take my son back there!

⁷“^aYahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kin, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘^bTo your seed I will give this land,’ He will send ^cHis angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

⁸“But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will ^abe free from this oath of mine; ^bonly do not take my son back there.”

⁹So the servant ^aplaced his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

¹⁰Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and he went with all kinds of ^agood things of his master’s in his hand. So he arose and went to ¹Mesopotamia, to ^bthe city of Nahor.

¹¹And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by ^athe well of water at evening time, ^bthe time when the women go out to draw water.