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G enesis 24
Rebekah was very beautiful and old enough to be married, but she was
still a virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up again.
17 Running over to her, the servant said, “Please give me a little drink of water
from your jug.”
18 “Yes, my lord,” she answered, “have a drink.” And she quickly lowered
her jug from her shoulder and gave him a drink. 19 When she had given him
a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels, too, until they have had
enough to drink.” 20 So she quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough
and ran back to the well to draw water for all his camels.
21 The servant watched her in silence, wondering whether or not the Lord
had given him success in his mission. 22 Then at last, when the camels had
finished drinking, he took out a gold ring for her nose and two large gold
bracelets* for her wrists.
23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “And please tell me, would your
father have any room to put us up for the night?”
24 “I am the daughter of Bethuel,” she replied. “My grandparents are Na
hor and Milcah. 25 Yes, we have plenty of straw and feed for the camels, and
we have room for guests.”
26 The man bowed low and worshiped the Lord. 27 “Praise the Lord, the
God of my master, Abraham,” he said. “The Lord has shown unfailing love
and faithfulness to my master, for he has led me straight to my master’s
relatives.”
28 The young woman ran home to tell her family everything that had happened. 29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet
the man at the spring. 30 He had seen the nose-ring and the bracelets on his
sister’s wrists, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said. So he
rushed out to the spring, where the man was still standing beside his camels. 31 Laban said to him, “Come and stay with us, you who are blessed by the
Lord! Why are you standing here outside the town when I have a room all
ready for you and a place prepared for the camels?”
32 So the man went home with Laban, and Laban unloaded the camels, gave
him straw for their bedding, fed them, and provided water for the man and
the camel drivers to wash their feet. 33 Then food was served. But Abraham’s
servant said, “I don’t want to eat until I have told you why I have come.”
“All right,” Laban said, “tell us.”
34 “I am Abraham’s servant,” he explained. 35 “And the Lord has greatly
blessed my master; he has become a wealthy man. The Lord has given him
flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, a fortune in silver and gold, and
many male and female servants and camels and donkeys.
36 “When Sarah, my master’s wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master’s son, and my master has given him everything he owns. 37 And my master
made me take an oath. He said, ‘Do not allow my son to marry one of these
local Canaanite women. 38 Go instead to my father’s house, to my relatives,
and find a wife there for my son.’
39 “But I said to my master, ‘What if I can’t find a young woman who is
willing to go back with me?’ 40 He responded, ‘The Lord, in whose presence I have lived, will send his angel with you and will make your mission
successful. Yes, you must find a wife for my son from among my relatives,
from my father’s family. 41 Then you will have fulfilled your obligation. But
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4:22 Hebrew a gold nose-ring weighing a beka [0.2 ounces or 6 grams] and two gold bracelets weigh2
ing 10 [shekels] [4 ounces or 114 grams].
