Holy Scripture
Genesis 24:2
A church father on this verse
“Abraham made him swear by the covenant of circumcision. Because God saw that the two heads of the world had dishonored this member, he set the sign of the covenant on it so that this member, which was the most despised of all the limbs, would now be the most honored of all the limbs. The sign of the covenant that was…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2And Abraham said to his servant the elder of his house, who had rule over all his possessions, Put thy hand under my thigh,
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1And Abraham was old, advanced in days, and the Lord blessed Abraham in all things.
— Genesis 24:2 —
3and I will adjure thee by the Lord the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.
4But thou shalt go instead to my country, where I was born, and to my tribe, and thou shalt take from thence a wife for my son Isaac.