³⁷ My master told me to make a serious promise to him. He said, “I live as a stranger among the Canaanite people. But you must not get a Canaanite woman to be a wife for my son. ³⁸ Instead, go to the land where my father lived and find a wife for my son from among my family there.”

³⁹ So I asked my master, “What should I do if the woman will not return with me?”