⁴⁰ When the servants of David had come to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her saying, “David sent us to you, to ask you to become his wife.”

^51 (A)Here is Rebekah before you; take her and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as the Lord has spoken.”

³⁷ Now my master ^(A)made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell; ^38 (B)but you shall go to my father’s house and to my family, and take a wife for my son.’