⁴⁰ His servants went to Carmel and said to Abigail, “David has sent us to you to take you to become his wife.”

⁵¹ Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has directed.^(A)”

³⁷ And my master made me swear an oath,^(A) and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,^{(B) 38} but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’^(C)