8. If the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from my oath. Only do not take my son back there.”
9. So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
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.
19. When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking.”
20. Then she quickly emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran to the well to draw water and drew for all his camels.
21. The man, gazing at her, remained silent, trying to discern whether the Lord had made his journey a success or not.
22. When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold nose ring of half a shekel weight and two bracelets for her wrists of ten shekels weight in gold,
23. and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to lodge?”
24. She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milkah, whom she bore to Nahor.”
25. Again she said to him, “We have both straw and provision enough, and room in which to lodge.”