Genesis 24:5–11

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

⁶Then Abraham said to him, “^aBeware that you do not take my son back there!

⁷“^aThe Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘^bTo your ¹descendants 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 my oath; ^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 set out with a variety of ^agood things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to ¹Mesopotamia, to ^bthe city of Nahor.

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