Genesis 24:41
39 Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
40 And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
42 So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
43 Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
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Sammenlign
- ÅB
- Da skal du være løst fra din ed til meg, når du kommer til mitt folk; og vil de ikke gi deg henne, så er du også løst fra eden til meg.
- OTB
- Du vil være løst fra min ed hvis, når du kommer til min familie, de nekter å gi henne til deg—da vil du være løst fra min ed.'
- B1930
- Da skal du være løst fra din ed til mig, når du kommer til mitt folk; og vil de ikke gi dig henne, så er du også løst fra eden til mig.
- BSB
- And when you go to my kindred, if they refuse to give her to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
- KJV
- Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath, when thou comest to my kindred; and if they give not thee one, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
- WEB
- Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’
- ASV
- Then shalt thou be clear from my oath, when thou comest to my kindred. And if they give her not to thee, thou shalt be clear from my oath.
- DARBY
- Then shalt thou be quit of my oath, when thou shalt have come to my family. And if they give thee not [one], thou shalt be quit of my oath.
- BLB
- Then you will be clear from my oath—when you come to my kindred; and if they do not give [her] to you, then you will be released from my oath.’
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Genesis 24:8
And if the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”
Les i sammenhengDeuteronomy 29:12
so that you may enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, which He is making with you today, and into His oath,
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