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Genesis 24 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Isaac and Rebekah

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:1 - Abraham was now very old, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:2 - He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he had, “Put your hand under my thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:3 - I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:4 - but will go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:5 - The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:6 - “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:7 - “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring[fn] I will give this land’—he will send his angel before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:8 - If the woman is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath of mine. Only do not take my son back there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:9 - So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:10 - Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for Aram Naharaim[fn] and made his way to the town of Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:11 - He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - Then he prayed, “LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:13 - See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:14 - May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:15 - Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:16 - The woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:18 - “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:19 - After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have had enough to drink.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:20 - So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:21 - Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey successful.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:22 - When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka[fn] and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:23 - Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:24 - She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:25 - And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you to spend the night.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:26 - Then the man bowed down and worshiped the LORD,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:27 - saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:28 - The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:29 - Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the man at the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:30 - As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:31 - “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:32 - So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:33 - Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I have to say.” “Then tell us,” Laban said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:34 - So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:35 - The LORD has blessed my master abundantly, and he has become wealthy. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:37 - And my master made me swear an oath, and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:38 - but go to my father’s family and to my own clan, and get a wife for my son.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:39 - “Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:40 - “He replied, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked faithfully, will send his angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you can get a wife for my son from my own clan and from my father’s family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:41 - You will be released from my oath if, when you go to my clan, they refuse to give her to you—then you will be released from my oath.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:42 - “When I came to the spring today, I said, ‘LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you will, please grant success to the journey on which I have come.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:43 - See, I am standing beside this spring. If a young woman comes out to draw water and I say to her, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:44 - and if she says to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too,” let her be the one the LORD has chosen for my master’s son.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:45 - “Before I finished praying in my heart, Rebekah came out, with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water, and I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:46 - “She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels also.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:47 - “I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ “She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milkah bore to him.’ “Then I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her arms,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:48 - and I bowed down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:49 - Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, so I may know which way to turn.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:50 - Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing to you one way or the other.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:51 - Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her become the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:52 - When Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:53 - Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother and to her mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:54 - Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:55 - But her brother and her mother replied, “Let the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you[fn] may go.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:56 - But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:57 - Then they said, “Let’s call the young woman and ask her about it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:58 - So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:59 - So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and Abraham’s servant and his men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:60 - And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your offspring possess the cities of their enemies.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:61 - Then Rebekah and her attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:63 - He went out to the field one evening to meditate,[fn] and as he looked up, he saw camels approaching.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:64 - Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:65 - and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:66 - Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
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Or seed
That is, Northwest Mesopotamia
That is, about 1/5 ounce or about 5.7 grams
That is, about 4 ounces or about 115 grams
Or she
The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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