2. Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
3. and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,
4. but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
5. The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from? ”
6. Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.
7. The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’ — He will send His angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.
8. If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”
9. So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
10. The servant took 10 of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand. Then he set out for Nahor’s town Aram-naharaim.
11. He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.