... the preservation of bloodlines: "you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live, but will go to my country and to my kindred and get a wife for my son Isaac'" (Genesis 24:3-4). These instructions that Abraham gives his servant reveal how betrothal is really about procreation, because the chief concern is the nationality ... leave his home for the land of Canaan. In the Hebrew Bible, God's covenant with Abraham first begins when he calls Abraham to "Go from your [Abraham's] country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I wil...

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