Genesis 24:5
The servant answered: If the woman will not come with me into this land, must I bring thy son back again to the place, from whence thou camest out?
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Respondit servus : Si noluerit mulier venire mecum in terram hanc, numquid reducere debeo filium tuum ad locum, de quo egressus es ?
- Septuagint (Swete)
- εἶπεν δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ παῖς Μή ποτε οὐ βούλεται ἡ γυνὴ πορευθῆναι μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ὀπίσω εἰς τὴν γῆν ταύτην· ἀποστρέψω τὸν υἱόν σου ⸂⸆⸃ εἰς τὴν γῆν ὅθεν ἐξῆλθες ἐκεῖθεν
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלָיו֙ הָעֶ֔בֶד אוּלַי֙ לֹא תֹאבֶ֣ה הָֽאִשָּׁ֔ה לָלֶ֥כֶת אַחֲרַ֖י אֶל הָאָ֣רֶץ הַזֹּ֑את הֶֽהָשֵׁ֤ב אָשִׁיב֙ אֶת בִּנְךָ֔ אֶל הָאָ֖רֶץ אֲשֶׁר יָצָ֥אתָ מִשָּֽׁם
Haydock's commentary
If the woman. Thus he shews his religious respect for an oath; and will not depend on his own explanation of the sense of it. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.