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Genesis - ch 24 v 1 - 20
- Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.
- And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:
- And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
- But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac.
- And the servant said, If by chance the woman will not come with me into this land, am I to take your son back again to the land from which you came?
- And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land.
- The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.
- And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there.
- And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing.
- And the servant took ten of his master's camels, and all sorts of good things of his master's, and went to Mesopotamia, to the town of Nahor.
- And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.
- And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.
- See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:
- Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.
- And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.
- She was a very beautiful girl, a virgin, who had never been touched by a man: and she went down to the spring to get water in her vessel.
- And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel.
- And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink.
- And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough.
- And after putting the water from her vessel into the animals' drinking-place, she went quickly back to the spring and got water for all the camels.
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