Abraham answered and said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak. Suppose thirty are found there.” He answered, “I will not do it, if I find thirty there.”

He said, “Behold, I have undertaken to speak to the Lord. Suppose twenty are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of twenty I will not destroy it.”

Then he said, “Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there.” He answered, “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”

And the Lord went his way, when he had finished speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his place.

He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

And he said, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.

Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”

Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.

and said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen.”

Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.” He said, “Speak on.”

“Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left.”

Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Isaac loved Esau because he ate of his game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die.”

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,

Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.

So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”

So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.

So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.

And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the Lord has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”