Rebekah Is Chosen

¹⁵ And it came about, ^(A)before he had finished speaking, that behold, ^(B)Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of ^(C)Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. ¹⁶ The young woman was ^(D)very beautiful, a virgin; no man had ^[a]had relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. ¹⁷ Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “^(E)Please let me drink a little water from your jar.” ¹⁸ And ^(F)she said, “Drink, my lord”; then she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink. ¹⁹ Now when she had finished giving him a drink, ^(G)she said, “I will also draw water for your camels until they have finished drinking.” ²⁰ So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels. ^21 (H)Meanwhile, the man was taking a close look at her ^[b]in silence, to find out whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

²² When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a ^(I)gold ring weighing a ^[c]half-shekel, and two bracelets for her ^[d]wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,

⁴⁵ “Before I had finished ^(A)speaking in my heart, behold, ^(B)Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew water, and ^(C)I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’ ⁴⁶ She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘^(D)Drink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also. ^47 (E)Then I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him’; and I put the ^(F)ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her ^[a]wrists.