Genesis 24:49 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

If you will show true kindness and real friendship to him in giving your daughter to his son, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may look out a wife for him elsewhere. It is a proverbial expression, Numbers 20:17, Numbers 22:26 Deuteronomy 2:27.

Genesis 24:49

49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.