Genesis 24:41
Good News Translation
There is only one way for you to be free from your vow: if you go to my relatives and they refuse you, then you will be free.'

New Revised Standard Version
Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my kindred; even if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’

Contemporary English Version
But if they refuse to let her come back with you, then you are freed from your promise."

New American Bible
Then you will be freed from my curse. If you go to my family and they refuse you, then, too, you will be free from my curse.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.

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

Deuteronomy 29:12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
40The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred, and of my father's house. 41But thou shalt be clear from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kindred, if they will not give thee one.42And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,…
Cross References
Genesis 24:8
But if the woman will not follow thee, thou shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not my son back thither again.

Genesis 24:42
And I came today to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my master, Abraham, if thou hast prospered my way, wherein I now walk,

Genesis 24:40
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