Genesis 24
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Genesis 24:11-19

11At evening, the time when women went out to draw water, he made the camels kneel beside a well outside the town.

12“Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “make this happen for me today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

13I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.

14Let 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.”

15Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah — daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor — coming with a jug on her shoulder.

16Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin — no man had been intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.

17Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

18She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.

19When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”

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