Genesis 24:8 Cross References - Brenton

⁸ And if the woman should not be willing to come with thee into this land, thou shalt be clear from my oath, only carry not my son thither again.

⁴ But thou shalt go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son Isaac. ⁵ And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back thy son to the land whence thou camest forth, if haply the woman should not be willing to return with me to this land? ⁶ And Abraam said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou carry not my son back thither.

^{5 (30:6)} But if her father straitly forbid her in the day in which he shall hear all her vows and her obligations, which she has contracted upon her soul, they shall not stand; and the Lord shall hold her guiltless, because her father forbade her.

^{8 (30:9)} But if her husband should straitly forbid her in the day in which he should hear her, none of her vows or obligations which she has contracted upon her soul shall stand, because her husband has disallowed her, and the Lord shall hold her guiltless.

¹⁷ And the men said to her, We are clear of this thy oath. ¹⁸ Behold, we shall enter into a part of the city, and thou shalt set a sign; thou shalt bind this scarlet cord in the window, by which thou hast let us down, and thou shalt bring in to thyself, into thy house, thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all the family of thy father. ¹⁹ And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall go outside the door of thy house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this thine oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with thee in thy house. ²⁰ But if any one should injure us, or betray these our matters, we shall be quit of this thine oath.

²⁰ This we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.