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My country, i.e. Mesopotomia, Gen_24:10, which being largely taken for the country between those two famous rivers Euphrates and Tigris, from which situation it hath that name; so Chaldea, whence Abraham came, Gen_11:31 12:1, was a part of it.
My kindred, the family of Nahor, concerning the increase whereof he had received information, Gen_22:20, &c., which he justly preferred before the Canaanites, partly because though they were idolaters, as appears from Gen_31:19,30,32,35 Jos 24:2, yet they did worship the true God together with idols, as may be gathered from Gen_24:31,50, and from other places; and therefore there was more hopes of the conversion of one of that family; and partly because they lived at a great distance from the place where Abraham and his posterity did and should live, and therefore one of that stock would be more easily disentangled from her superstition and idolatry, because she was removed from the influences of the evil counsels and examples of her nearest relations, and partly because they were of the race of blessed Shem, and not of cursed Canaan.