qSee ch. 12:2, 3
Genesis 24:3-7
3that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that ayou will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, 4 bbut will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” 5The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” 6Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there. 7The Lord, the God of heaven, cwho took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, d‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ ehe will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.Genesis 24:44
44 fand who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’Genesis 26:34-35
34When Esau was forty years old, he took gJudith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35and hthey made life bitter ▼▼Hebrew they were bitterness of spirit
for Isaac and Rebekah. Genesis 27:46
46Then Rebekah said to Isaac, j“I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. ▼▼Hebrew daughters of Heth
lIf Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?” Genesis 28:2-4
2 mArise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of nBethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother. 3 oGod Almighty ▼▼Hebrew El Shaddai
bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples. 4May he give qthe blessing of Abraham to you and to your offspring with you, that you may take possession of rthe land of your sojournings that God gave to Abraham!” Deuteronomy 7:4
4for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. sThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you tquickly.Ezra 9:4
4Then all who utrembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat vappalled until the evening sacrifice.Nehemiah 13:24
24And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.
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