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Genesis
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English: Basic English Bible |
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Genesis 24 [Context] [Commentary] [Map] 
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Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure. |
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And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg: |
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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; |
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But that you will go into my country and to my relations and get a wife there for my son Isaac. |
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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? |
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And Abraham said, Take care that you do not let my son go back to that land. |
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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. |
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And if the woman will not come with you, then you are free from this oath; only do not take my son back there. |
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And the servant put his hand under Abraham's leg, and gave him his oath about this thing. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water: |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And the servant came running to her and said, Give me a little water from your vessel. |
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And she said, Take a drink, my lord: and quickly letting down her vessel onto her hand, she gave him a drink. |
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And having done so, she said, I will get water for your camels till they have had enough. |
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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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And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome. |
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