The Bible Story - Volume I - Chapter 8 - Basil Wolverton - 1961

Basil Wolverton

ESAU SELLS JACOB HIS BIRTHRIGHT, ABOUT three years after his wife Sarah had died, Abraham began to think more and more about Isaac getting married. At that time Isaac was forty years old, and Abraham knew that Isaac might pick a wife from among the Canaanites, who were idol worshippers. Abraham therefore told his chief servant to take men and camels and provisions and go to Mesopotamia, Abraham's native land, and bring back a wife from among Abraham's own people. (Genesis 24:3-4.) It was the custom then, as it still is in some countries, for the parents to choose whom their children would marry. Abraham felt sure that there were many of his own tribe still in Mesopotamia who worshipped God, because his brother, Nahor, had settled there at the time Abraham had left for Canaan many years before. (Genesis 22:20-24.) And Abraham knew that God wanted the people of his tribe to marry only those of the same tribe from which he came. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library