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of my father’s house, and out of my native coun- and was coming back.
try, who spoke to me, and swore to me, saying: 17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said:
To thy seed will I give this land: he will send Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.
his angel before thee, and thou shalt take from 18 And she answered: Drink, my lord. And
thence a wife for my son. quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm,
8 But if the woman will not follow thee, thou and gave him drink.
shalt not be bound by the oath: only bring not 19 And when he had drunk, she said: I will
my son back thither again. draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.
9 The servant, therefore, put his hand under 20 And pouring out the pitcher into the
the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and swore to him troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water;
upon his word. and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.
10 And he took ten camels of his master’s 21 But he musing, beheld her with silence,
herd, and departed, carrying something of all his desirous to know whether the Lord had made
goods with him, and he set forward and went on his journey prosperous or not.
to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nachor. 22 And after that the camels had drunk, the
11 And when he had made the camels lie down man took out golden earrings, weighing two
without the town, near a well of water, in the sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles weight.
evening, at the time when women are wont to 23 And he said to her: Whose daughter art
come out to draw water, he said: thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father’s
12 O Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, house to lodge?
meet me today, I beseech thee, and shew kind- 24 And she answered: I am the daughter of
ness to my master, Abraham. Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to
13 Behold, I stand nigh the spring of water, Nachor.
and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city 25 And she said, moreover, to him: We have
will come out to draw water: good store of both straw and hay, and a large
14 Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall place to lodge in.
say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: 26 The man bowed himself down, and adored
and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy the Lord,
camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou 27 Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my
hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this, master Abraham, who hath not taken away his
I shall understand that thou hast shewn kindness mercy and truth from my master, and hath
to my master. brought me the straight way into the house of
15 He had not yet ended these words within my master’s brother.
himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the 28 Then the maid ran, and told in her
daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Na- mother’s house all that she had heard.
chor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher 29 And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban,
on her shoulder: who went out in haste to the man, to the well.
16 An exceeding comely maid, and a most 30 And when he had seen the earrings and
beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she bracelets in his sister’s hands, and had heard all
went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man