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Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years; and the
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Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all kinds of choice gifts from his master; and he set out and went to Aram-naharaim, to the city of Nahor.
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He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water; it was toward evening, the time when women go out to draw water.
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And he said, "O
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Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, coming out with her water jar on her shoulder.
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The girl was very fair to look upon, a virgin, whom no man had known. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up.
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Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please let me sip a little water from your jar."
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"Drink, my lord," she said, and quickly lowered her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.
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When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw for your camels also, until they have finished drinking."
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So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.
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The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether or not the
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When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,
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and said, "Tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"
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She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."
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She added, "We have plenty of straw and fodder and a place to spend the night."
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The man bowed his head and worshiped the
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Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.
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As soon as he had seen the nose-ring, and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man; and there he was, standing by the camels at the spring.
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He said, "Come in, O blessed of the
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So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.
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The
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"I came today to the spring, and said, "O
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"Before I had finished speaking in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her water jar on her shoulder; and she went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, "Please let me drink.'
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She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder, and said, "Drink, and I will also water your camels.' So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
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Then I asked her, "Whose daughter are you?' She said, "The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her arms.
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Then I bowed my head and worshiped the
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Then Laban and Bethuel answered, "The thing comes from the
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When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the ground before the
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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
"May you, our sister, become
thousands of myriads;
may your offspring gain possession
of the gates of their foes."
61 Then Rebekah and her maids rose up, mounted the camels, and followed the man; thus the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.
62 Now Isaac had come from 1 Beer-lahai-roi, and was settled in the Negeb. 63 Isaac went out in the evening to walk 2 in the field; and looking up, he saw camels coming. 64 And Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she slipped quickly from the camel, 65 and said to the servant, "Who is the man over there, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself. 66 And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done. 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent. He took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.