I Love the Lord

Isaac and Rebekah

24 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord ^(A)had blessed Abraham in all things. ² And Abraham said to his servant, ^(B)the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, ^(C)“Put your hand under my thigh, ³ that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that ^(D)you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell, ^4 (E)but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” ⁵ The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” ⁶ Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there. ⁷ The Lord, the God of heaven, ^(F)who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ^(G)‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ ^(H)he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. ⁸ But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then ^(I)you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.” ⁹ So the servant ^(J)put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

³⁵ “This Moses, whom they rejected, ^(A)saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—this man God sent as both ruler and redeemer ^(B)by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. ^36 (C)This man led them out, performing ^(D)wonders and signs ^(E)in Egypt and ^(F)at the Red Sea and ^(G)in the wilderness for ^(H)forty years. ³⁷ This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you ^(I)a prophet like me from your brothers.’ ³⁸ This is the one ^(J)who was in the congregation in the wilderness with ^(K)the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. ^(L)He received ^(M)living ^(N)oracles to give to us. ³⁹ Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and ^(O)in their hearts they turned to Egypt, ⁴⁰ saying to Aaron, ^(P)‘Make for us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who led us out from the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’ ⁴¹ And ^(Q)they made a calf in those days, and offered a sacrifice to the idol and ^(R)were rejoicing in ^(S)the works of their hands. ⁴² But ^(T)God turned away and ^(U)gave them over to worship ^(V)the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: