[The Pentateuch]

¶ The .xxiiij. Chapter

Abraham was old and stricken in days / and the LORD had blessed him in allthings. And he said unto his eldest servant of his house which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hand under my thy that I may make the swear by the LORD that is God of heaven and God of the earth / that thou shalt not take a wife unto my son / of the daughters of the canaanites / among which I dwell. But shalt goo unto my country and to my kindred / and there take a wife unto my son Isaac.

ABraham was olde and stryken in dayes / and the LORde had blessed him in allthinges. And he sayde vnto his eldest servaunte of his house which had the rule over all that he had: Put thy hande vnder my thye that I maye make the swere by the LORde that is God of heauen and God of the erth / that thou shalt not take a wyfe vnto my sonne / of the doughters of the canaanytes / amonge which I dwell. But shalt goo vnto my contre and to my kynred / and there take a wyfe vnto my sonne Isaac.

Than said the servant unto him: what and if the woman will not agree to come with me unto this land / shall I bring thy son again unto the land which thou camest out of▪ And Abraham said unto him: beware of that / that thou b••ge not my son thither. The LORD God of heaven which toke me from my fathers ⟨image 39⟩house and from the land where I was borne / and which spake unto me and sware unto me saying: unto thy seed will I give this land / he shall send his angel before the / y• thou mayst take a wife unto my son from thence. Nevertheless if the woman will not agree to come with the than shalt thou be with out danger of this oath. But above all thing bring not my son thither again. And the servant put his hand under the thy of Abraham and sware to him as concerning that matter.