61 Then Rebekah and her female servants got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

62 Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,[a](A) for he was living in the Negev region. 63 In the early evening Isaac went out to walk[b] in the field, and looking up he saw camels coming. 64 Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from her camel 65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself. 66 Then the servant told Isaac everything he had done.

67 And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.(B)

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  1. 24:62 = A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me
  2. 24:63 Or pray, or meditate; Hb obscure

61 Then Rebekah and her attendants(A) got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi,(B) for he was living in the Negev.(C) 63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate,[a](D) and as he looked up,(E) he saw camels approaching. 64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel(F) 65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”

“He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil(G) and covered herself.

66 Then the servant told Isaac all he had done. 67 Isaac brought her into the tent(H) of his mother Sarah,(I) and he married Rebekah.(J) So she became his wife, and he loved her;(K) and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.(L)

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  1. Genesis 24:63 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.