⁵⁴ Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night there.

When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way^(A) to my master.”

⁵⁶ But he said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the Lord has granted success^(A) to my journey. Send me on my way^(B) so I may go to my master.”

⁵⁹ So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way,^(A) along with her nurse^(B) and Abraham’s servant and his men.

Saying 6

David Mourns

¹⁹ Now Ahimaaz^(A) son of Zadok said, “Let me run and take the news to the king that the Lord has vindicated him by delivering him from the hand of his enemies.^(B)”

²⁴ Then he sent his brothers away, and as they were leaving he said to them, “Don’t quarrel on the way!”^(A)

⁵ Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way,^(A) and he went to Paddan Aram,^(B) to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean,^(C) the brother of Rebekah,^(D) who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.

⁶ Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”^(E)

³⁸ The man from whom the demons had gone out begged to go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying, ³⁹ “Return home and tell how much God has done for you.” So the man went away and told all over town how much Jesus had done for him.

²⁷ The watchman said, “It seems to me that the first one runs like^(A) Ahimaaz son of Zadok.”