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Gen 24:38 (KJV) — But thou shalt go unto my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

Gen 24:38 (NASB) — but you shall go to my father's house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

Phrase from KJV (Help)		Correlating Verses

But	Gen 24:4; Gen 12:1
my father's	i.e., Where the family of Haran his brother had settled; and where he himself had remained some time with his father Terah. Nahor did not dwell at Ur of the Chaldees, but at Haran in Mesopotamia. The true worship of God seems to have been in some measure preserved in this family, though afterwards corrupted. Gen 31:19