Lexicon :: Strong's G3816 - pais

he said:

Canaan is cursed.

He will be the lowest of slaves to his brothers.

He treated Abram well because of her, and Abram acquired flocks and herds, male and female donkeys, male and female slaves, and camels.

And he and his servants deployed against them by night, defeated them, and pursued them as far as Hobah to the north of Damascus.

and said, “My lord, if I have found favor with you, please do not go on past your servant.

“I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. Later, you can continue on.”

“Yes,” they replied, “do as you have said.”

Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.

Then the LORD said, “Should I hide what I am about to do from Abraham?

and said, “My lords, turn aside to your servant’s house, wash your feet, and spend the night. Then you can get up early and go on your way.”

“No,” they said. “We would rather spend the night in the square.”

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally[fn] told them all these things, and the men were terrified.

Then Abimelech took flocks and herds and male and female slaves, gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.

But Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out to go to the place God had told him about.

Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship; then we’ll come back to you.”

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

The servant said to him, “Suppose the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I have your son go back to the land you came from? ”

So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

“Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’ ​— ​let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

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

The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

“I am Abraham’s servant,” he said.

When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed to the ground before the LORD.

So they said, “Let’s call the girl and ask her opinion.”[fn]

So they sent away their sister Rebekah with the one who had nursed and raised her,[fn] and Abraham’s servant and his men.

Then Rebekah and her female servants got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us? ”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham, filling them with dirt.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

So he built an altar there, called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s servants also dug a well there.

On that same day Isaac’s servants came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water! ”

And the man became very rich.[fn] He had many flocks, female and male slaves, and camels and donkeys.

He commanded them, “You are to say to my lord Esau, ‘This is what your servant Jacob says. I have been staying with Laban and have been delayed until now.

“I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness you have shown your servant. Indeed, I crossed over the Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.

He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

“then tell him, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift sent to my lord Esau. And look, he is behind us.’ ”

“You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’ ” For he thought, “I want to appease Esau with the gift that is going ahead of me. After that, I can face him, and perhaps he will forgive me.”

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you? ”

He answered, “The children God has graciously given your servant.”

So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession[fn] I met? ”

“To find favor with you, my lord,” he answered.

“Let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a pace suited to the livestock and the children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”

“Demand of me a high compensation[fn] and gift; I’ll give you whatever you ask me. Just give the girl to be my wife! ”

she called her household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.