7. The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, who spoke to me and swore to me, saying, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' himself will send his Angel before you, and you will take from there a wife for my son.
8. But if the woman is not willing to follow you, you will not be held by the oath. Only do not lead my son back to that place."
9. Therefore, the servant placed his hand under the thigh of Abraham, his lord, and he swore to him on his word.
10. And he took ten camels from his lord's herd, and he went forth, carrying with him things from all of his goods. And he set out, and continued on, to the city of Nahor, in Mesopotamia.
11. And when he had made the camels lie down outside of the town, near a well of water, in the evening, at the time when women are accustomed to go out to draw water, he said: