⁴⁰ “He replied, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked faithfully,^(A) will send his angel with you^(B) and make your journey a success,^(C) so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.^(D)

God’s Angel to Prepare the Way

²⁰ “See, I am sending an angel^(A) ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.^(B)

⁷ “The Lord, the God of heaven,^(A) who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land^(B) and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring^[a](C) I will give this land’^(D)—he will send his angel before you^(E) so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

²² After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked faithfully with God^(A) 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

³ “Remember,^(A) Lord, how I have walked^(B) before you faithfully^(C) and with wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.

²³ and said: