2. He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, ‘Put your hand under my thigh.
3. I want you to swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
4. but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.’
5. The servant asked him, ‘What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?’
6. ‘Make sure that you do not take my son back there,’ Abraham said.