¹⁷ The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”^(A)

¹⁸ “Drink,^(B) my lord,” she said, and quickly lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.

¹⁹ After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels^(C) too,^(D) until they have had enough to drink.” 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.^{(E) 21} Without saying a word, the man watched her closely to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey successful.^(F)

²² When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring^(G) weighing a beka^[a] and two gold bracelets^(H) weighing ten shekels.^{[b] 23} Then he asked, “Whose daughter are you?^(I) Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?^(J)”

²⁴ She answered him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.^(K)” ²⁵ And she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder,^(L) as well as room for you to spend the night.”

²⁶ Then the man bowed down and worshiped the Lord,^{(M) 27} saying, “Praise be to the Lord,^(N) the God of my master Abraham,^(O) who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness^(P) to my master. As for me, the Lord has led me on the journey^(Q) to the house of my master’s relatives.”^(R)

²⁸ The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.^{(S) 29} Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban,^(T) and he hurried out to the man at the spring. ³⁰ As soon as he had seen the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s arms,^(U) 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. ³¹ “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord,”^(V) he said. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”

³² So the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder^(W) were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.^{(X) 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.

³⁴ So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.^{(Y) 35} The Lord has blessed^(Z) my master abundantly,^(AA) and he has become wealthy.^(AB) He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.^{(AC) 36} My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age,^(AD) and he has given him everything he owns.^{(AE) 37} And my master made me swear an oath,^(AF) and said, ‘You must not get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live,^(AG)