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14 I will say to one of them, ‘Please put your jar down so that I can drink.’ Let her answer show whether she is the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. If she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give water to your camels,’ I will know that she is the right one. It will be proof that you have shown kindness to my master.”

A Wife Is Found

15 Before the servant finished praying, a young woman named Rebekah came to the well. She was the daughter of Bethuel. (Bethuel was the son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham’s brother.) Rebekah came to the well with her water jar on her shoulder. 16 She was very pretty. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the well and filled her jar.

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14 May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink,(A) and I’ll water your camels too’(B)—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac.(C) By this I will know(D) that you have shown kindness to my master.”

15 Before he had finished praying,(E) Rebekah(F) came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel(G) son of Milkah,(H) who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.(I) 16 The woman was very beautiful,(J) a virgin;(K) no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

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