Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 24:3

Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 24:3 - 24:3

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Jamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Genesis 24:3 - 24:3

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24:1 - 24:1
24:2 - 24:2
24:3 - 24:3
24:10 - 24:10
24:12 - 24:12
24:15 - 24:15
24:22 - 24:22
24:23 - 24:23
24:28 - 24:28
24:29 - 24:29
24:32 - 24:32
24:50 - 24:50
24:53 - 24:53
24:64 - 24:64
24:65 - 24:65
24:67 - 24:67

thou shalt not take a wife, etc. - Among pastoral tribes the matrimonial arrangements are made by the parents, and a youth must marry, not among strangers, but in his own tribe - custom giving him a claim, which is seldom or never resisted, to the hand of his first cousin. But Abraham had a far higher motive - a fear lest, if his son married into a Canaanitish family, he might be gradually led away from the true God.