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Genesis 24 📜 📕 ↷
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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