⁴⁰ When the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife.

³⁷ My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

³⁸ but you shall go to my father's house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.'

⁵¹ Behold, Rebekah is before you, take her, and go, and let her be your master's son's wife, as Yahweh has spoken."