8If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again.|


In Context

5 The 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?|

6 Abraham said to him, |Beware that you don't bring my son there again.

7 Yahweh, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

8 If the woman isn't willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath. Only you shall not bring my son there again.|

9 The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

10 The servant took ten camels, of his master's camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master's with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Genesis 24:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:8And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:8If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there."

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:8But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath; only bring not my son back thither again.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:8And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath. Only thou shalt not bring my son thither again.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be quit of this my oath: only, bring not my son thither again.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:8And if the woman be not willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only thou shalt not bring my son thither again.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8And if the woman shall not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this my oath; only bring not my son thither again.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:8and if the woman be not willing to come after thee, then thou hast been acquitted from this mine oath: only my son thou dost not cause to turn back thither.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:8And if the woman will not be willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this my oath: only bring not my son thither again.