Genesis 24:10-18 Modern English Version (MEV)

10. Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, for all the goods of his master were in his hand. And he arose and went to the city of Nahor in Aram Naharaim.

11. He made his camels kneel down outside the city by a well of water in the evening when the women came out to draw water.

12. Then he said, “O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please let me have success this day and show kindness to my master Abraham.

13. See, here I stand by the well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

14. Let it be that the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please lower your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she shall say, ‘Drink, and I will give your camels water also’—let her be the one that You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. Then I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

15. Before he had finished speaking, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milkah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, came out with a pitcher on her shoulder.

16. The young woman was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, and no man had ever been with her. She went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up.

17. Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your pitcher.”

18. So she said, “Drink, my lord.” Then she quickly let down her pitcher to her hand and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24