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GENESIS Heart of David Study Bible

kindness to my master Abraham. Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The
daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water. Let it happen, that the
young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ and she
will say, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’ - let her be the one you have
appointed for your servant Yitshak. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to
my master.”
It happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Ribkah me out, who was
born to Bethuel the son of Milkah, the wife of Nokor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher
on her shoulder. The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any
man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up. The servant
ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and
gave him drink. When she had done giving him drink, she said, “I will also draw for your
camels, until they have done drinking.” She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the
trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.
The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had
made his journey prosperous or not. It happened, as the camels had done drinking, that the
man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten
shekels weight of gold, and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room
in your father’s house for us to lodge in?”
She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milkah, whom she bore to
Nokor.” She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and food enough, and room to
lodge in.”
The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh. He said, “Blessed be Yahweh,
the Elohim of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth
toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s
relatives.”
The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words. Ribkah had a
brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring. It happened,
when he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words
of Ribkah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” that he came to the man.
Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring. He said, “Come in, you blessed of
Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the
camels.”
The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and food
for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.”
He said, “Speak on.”

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