5And the servant said to him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I needs bring your son again to the land from from where you came?


In Context

2 And Abraham said to his oldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had, Put, I pray you, your hand under my thigh:

3 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell:

4 But you shall go to my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife to my son Isaac.

5 And the servant said to him, Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I needs bring your son again to the land from from where you came?

6 And Abraham said to him, Beware you that you bring not my son thither again.

7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spoke to me, and that swore to me, saying, To your seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son from there.

Genesis 24:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:5And 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?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:5The servant asked him, "What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:5The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place, from whence thou camest out?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:5And 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5And the servant said to him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I, then, bring thy son again in any case to the land from which thou hast removed?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:5And 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5And the servant said to him, It may be the woman will not be willing to follow me to this land: must I needs bring thy son again to the land from whence thou camest?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5The servant said to him, |What if the woman isn't willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:5And the servant saith unto him, 'It may be the woman is not willing to come after me unto this land; do I at all cause thy son to turn back unto the land from whence thou camest out?'