24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise 1 by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire 2 a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.
24:4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives 3 to find 4 a wife for my son Isaac.”
1 tn Following the imperative, the cohortative with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose.
2 tnHeb “because you must not take.”
3 tnHeb “for to my country and my relatives you must go.”