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come?’ I asked him. 40  ‘She will,’ he told me—‘for my Lord, in whose presence I have walked, will send his angel with you and make your mission successful. Yes, find a girl from among my relatives, from my brother’s family. 41  You are under oath to go and ask. If they won’t send anyone, then you are freed from your promise.’
         42  “Well, this afternoon when I came to the spring I prayed this prayer: ‘O Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, if you are planning to make my mission a success, please guide me in this way: 43  Here I am, standing beside this spring. I will say to some girl who comes out to draw water, “Please give me a drink of water!” 44  And she will reply, “Certainly! And I’ll water your camels too!” Let that girl be the one you have selected to be the wife of my master’s son.’
         45  “Well, while I was still speaking these words, Rebekah was coming along with her water jug upon her shoulder; and she went down to the spring and drew water and filled the jug. I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’ 46  She quickly lifted the jug down from her shoulder so that I could drink, and told me, ‘Certainly, sir, and I will water your camels too!’ So she did! 47  Then I asked her, ‘Whose family are you from?’ And she told me, ‘Nahor’s. My father is Bethuel, the son of Nahor and his wife Milcah.’ So I gave her the ring and the bracelets. 48  Then I bowed my head and worshiped and blessed Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, because he had led me along just the right path to find a girl from the family of my master’s brother. * 49  So tell me, yes or no. Will you or won’t you be kind to my master and do what is right? When you tell me, then I’ll know what my next step should be, whether to move this way or that.”
         50  Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “The Lord has obviously brought you here, so what can we say? 51  Take her and go! Yes, let her be the wife of your master’s son, as Jehovah has directed.”
         52  At this reply, Abraham’s servant fell to his knees before Jehovah. 53  Then he brought out jewels set in solid gold and silver for Rebekah, and lovely clothing; and he gave many valuable presents to her mother and brother. 54  Then they had supper, and the servant and the men with him stayed there overnight. But early the next morning he said, “Send me back to my master!”
         55  “But we want Rebekah here at least another ten days or so!” her mother and brother exclaimed. “Then she can go.”
         56  But he pleaded, “Don’t hinder my return; the Lord has made my mission successful, and I want to report back to my master.”
         57  “Well,” they said, “we’ll call the girl and ask her what she thinks.”
         58  So they called Rebekah. “Are you willing to go with this man?” they asked her.
         And she replied, “Yes, I will go.”
         59  So they told her good-bye, sending along the woman who had been her childhood nurse, 60  and blessed her with this blessing as they parted:
         “Our sister,
         May you become
         The mother of many millions!
         May your descendants
         Overcome all your enemies.”
         61  So Rebekah and her servant girls mounted the camels and went with him.
         62  Meanwhile, Isaac, whose home was in the Negeb, had returned to Beer-lahai-roi. 63  One evening as he was taking a walk out in the fields, meditating, he looked up and saw the camels coming. 64  Rebekah noticed him and quickly dismounted.
         65  “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant.
         And he replied, “It is my master’s son!” * So she covered her face with her veil. 66  Then the servant told Isaac the whole story.
         67  And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother’s tent, and she became his wife. He loved her very much, and she was