Genesis 24:40
And he said unto me, The LORD, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
KJV
Dominus, ait, in cujus conspectu ambulo, mittet angelum suum tecum, et diriget viam tuam : accipiesque uxorem filio meo de cognatione mea, et de domo patris mei.
Vulgate
καὶ εἶπέν μοι Κύριος ὁ θεός, ᾧ εὐηρέστησα ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸς ἐξαποστελεῖ τὸν ἄγγελον αὐτοῦ μετὰ σοῦ καὶ εὐοδώσει τὴν ὁδόν σου· καὶ λήμψῃ γυναῖκα τῷ υἱῷ μου ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς μου καὶ ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός μου.
LXX
And he said unto me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:
ASV
וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר אֵלָ֑/י יְהוָ֞ה אֲשֶׁר הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי לְ/פָנָ֗י/ו יִשְׁלַ֨ח מַלְאָכ֤/וֹ אִתָּ/ךְ֙ וְ/הִצְלִ֣יחַ דַּרְכֶּ֔/ךָ וְ/לָקַחְתָּ֤ אִשָּׁה֙ לִ/בְנִ֔/י מִ/מִּשְׁפַּחְתִּ֖/י וּ/מִ/בֵּ֥ית אָבִֽ/י
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 8:23 — And he said, LORD God of Israel, there is no God like thee, in heaven above, or on earth beneath, who keepest covenant and mercy with thy servants that walk before thee with all their heart:
- 2Kgs 20:3 — I beseech thee, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore.
- Dan 3:28 — Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, a
- Exod 23:20 — Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
- Exod 33:2 — And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
- Gen 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Gen 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
- Gen 5:24 — And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
- Gen 6:9 — These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Gen 17:1 — And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
- Gen 24:7 — The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall se
- Gen 48:15 — And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
- Heb 1:14 — Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?
- Ps 1:3 — And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
- Ps 16:8 — I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Ps 91:11 — For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
- Rev 22:8 — And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which shewed me these things.
- Rev 22:16 — I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
- Zech 10:12 — And I will strengthen them in the LORD; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the LORD.