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29 And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who in all haste went forth to the man, where the fountain was.
30 And when he had seen the earlets and bracelets in his sister's hands, and hand heard all her words reporting: These words spake the man unto me; he came to the man which stood beside the camels, and nigh to the fountain of water:
31 and said to him: Come in, thou blessed of our Lord: Why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.
32 And he brought him into his lodging: and he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and of the men that were come with him.
33 And bread was set before him. Who said: I will not eat till I speak my message. He answered him: Speak.
34 And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:
35 And our Lord hath blessed my lord wonderfully, and he is magnified: and he hath given him sheep, & oxen, silver and gold, men servants & women servants, camels, and asses.
36 And Sara my lord's wife hath born my lord a son in her old age, and he hath given him all things that he had.
37 And my lord adjured me saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:
38 but thou shalt go to my father's house, and of mine own kindred shalt thou take a wife for my son:
39 but I answered my lord: What if the woman will not come with me?
40 Our Lord, saith he, in whose sight I walk, will send his Angel with thee, & will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of mine own kindred, and of my father's house.
41 Thou shalt be innocent from my curse, when thou shalt come to my kin, and they will not give her thee.
42 I came therefore to day to the well of water, and said: O Lord God of my lord Abraham, if thou hast directed my way, wherein I now walk,
43 behold I stand besides the well of water, and the virgin, that shall come forth to draw water, when she shall hear me say: Give me a little water to drink of thy tankard;
44 and she shall say to me: Drink both thou and for thy camels I will draw also; that is the woman, which our Lord hath prepared for my master's son.
45 And whilst I pondered these things secretly with my self, Rebecca appeared coming with a tankard, which she carried upon her shoulder: & she went down to the fountain, & drew water.
46 And I said to her: Give me a little to drink. Who speedily let down the tankard from her shoulder, and said to me: Drink Both thou, and to thy camels I will give drink. I drank, and she watered the camels.
47 And I asked her, and said: Whose daughter art thou? Who answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Nachor, whom Melcha bare him. I hung therefore earlets to adorn her face, and I put bracelets upon her hands.
48 And prostrate I adored our Lord, blessing the Lord God of my lord Abraham, who hath brought me the straight way to take the daughter of my lord's brother for his son.
49 Wherefore if you do according to mercy and truth with my lord, shew me: but if it please you otherwise, that also tell me, that I may go to the right hand or to the left.
50 And Laban and Bathuel answered: From our Lord the word hath proceeded: we can not speak any other thing with thee besides his pleasure.
51 Behold Rebecca is before thee, take her and go thy ways, & let her be the wife of thy lord's son, as our Lord hath spoken.
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