Genesis 24:25-52

Names of God Bible

²⁵ We have plenty of straw and feed for your camels and room for you to spend the night.”

²⁶ The man knelt, bowing to Yahweh with his face touching the ground. ²⁷ He said, “Praise Yahweh, the Elohim of my master Abraham. Yahweh hasn’t failed to be kind and faithful to my master. Yahweh has led me on this trip to the home of my master’s relatives.”

²⁸ The girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things. ²⁹ Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. ³⁰ He saw the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and heard her tell what the man had said to her. Immediately, Laban ran out to the man by the spring.^[a] He came to the man, who was standing with the camels by the spring. ³¹ He said, “Come in, you whom Yahweh has blessed. Why are you standing out here? I have straightened up the house and made a place for the camels.”

³² So the man went into the house. The camels were unloaded and given straw and feed. Then water was brought for him and his men to wash their feet. ³³ When the food was put in front of him, he said, “I won’t eat until I’ve said what I have to say.”

“Speak up,” Laban said.

³⁴ “I am Abraham’s servant,” he said. ³⁵ “Yahweh has blessed my master, and he has become wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and donkeys. ³⁶ My master’s wife Sarah gave him a son in her old age, and my master has given that son everything he has. ³⁷ My master made me swear this oath: ‘Don’t get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I’m living. ³⁸ Instead, go to my father’s home and to my relatives, and get my son a wife.’

³⁹ “I asked my master, ‘What if the woman won’t come back with me?’

⁴⁰ “He answered me, ‘I have been living the way Yahweh wants me to. The Lord will send his angel with you to make your trip successful. You will get my son a wife from my relatives and from my father’s family. ⁴¹ Then you will be free from your oath to me. You will also be free of your oath to me if my relatives are not willing to do this when you go to them.’

⁴² “When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘Yahweh Elohim of my master Abraham, please make my trip successful. ⁴³ I’m standing by the spring. I’ll say to the young woman who comes out to draw water, “Please give me a drink of water.” ⁴⁴ If she says to me, “Not only may you have a drink, but I will also draw water for your camels,” let her be the woman Yahweh has chosen for my master’s son.’

⁴⁵ “Before I had finished praying, Rebekah came with her jar on her shoulder. She went down to the spring and drew water.

“So I asked her, ‘May I have a drink?’ ⁴⁶ She quickly lowered her jar and said, ‘Have a drink, and I’ll water your camels too.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.

⁴⁷ “Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’

“She answered, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, son of Nahor and Milcah.’

“I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists. ⁴⁸ I knelt, bowing down to Yahweh. I praised Yahweh, the Elohim of my master Abraham. Yahweh led me in the right direction to get the daughter of my master’s relative for his son. ⁴⁹ Tell me whether or not you’re going to show my master true kindness so that I will know what to do.”

⁵⁰ Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from Yahweh. We can’t say anything to you one way or another. ⁵¹ Here’s Rebekah! Take her and go! She will become the wife of your master’s son, as Yahweh has said.”

⁵² When Abraham’s servant heard their answer, he bowed down to Yahweh.