Genesis 24:4

my country … kindred Here, as in Genesis 28:2 (P), the country and kindred of Abraham are to be sought, not in Ur of the Chaldees, but in the land of Haran, or Paddan-aram; cf. Genesis 24:7.

take a wife for my son Isaac It was customary for the father to select a bride for his son; cf. Genesis 34:4; Judges 14:2. The same custom prevailed in Babylon, as appears from the Code of Hammurabi, § 155, "if a man betroth a maiden to his son," &c.

"Marriage between cousins has been and still is particularly common in the East (cp. Genesis 24:4; Gen 29:19; 1 Kings 14:31; 1 Kings 15:2), and the tie between them is closer and more sacred than that between an ordinary couple" (Burckhardt, Ar. Prov., quoted in Stanley Cook, p. 99).