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

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

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

Correlating Passages

But

	Gen 24:4	But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
	Gen 12:1	Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

my father's

Gen 31:19

And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that [were] her father's.

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Scott, Thomas. "Genesis 24:38," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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