Genesis 24:7
24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, 1 promised me with a solemn oath, 2 ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel 3 before you so that you may find 4 a wife for my son from there.
Genesis 50:5
50:5 ‘My father made me swear an oath. He said, 5 “I am about to die. Bury me 6 in my tomb that I dug for myself there in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go and bury my father; then I will return.’”
1 tn Or “the land of my birth.”
2 tn Heb “and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying.”
3 tn Or “his messenger.”
4 tn Heb “before you and you will take.”
5 tn Heb “saying.”
6 tn The imperfect verbal form here has the force of a command.