Genesis 24
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And they ate and ·they drank, he and the men that were with him, and ·they overnighted, and ·they rose in the morning, and he said, “‹Send me forth› to my lord.”
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And her brother and her mother said, “Let the lass dwell with us some days—or ten. Afterwards she shall go.”
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And he said unto them, “Make me not ‹get behind›,1 and Yahweh hath advanced my way. ‹Send me forth›, and I shall go to my lord.”
Footnotes
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Make me not get behind. “Behind” is the same root as “afterwards” in the preceding verse; the general sense is of one thing being behind another in time. ↩