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Genesis 24:10-15 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

10. And he took ten camels of his master's herd, and departed, carrying something of all his goods with him, and he set forth and went on to Mesopotamia to the city of Nachor.

11. And when he had made the camels lie down without the town near a well of water in Evening, at the time when women were wont to come out to draw water, he said:

12. O Lord the God of my master Abraham, meet me to day, I beseech thee, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

13. Behold I stand nigh the spring of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of this city will come out to draw water.

14. Now, therefore, the maid to whom I shall say: Let down thy pitcher that I may drink: and she shall answer, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let it be the same whom thou hast provided for thy servant Isaac: and by this I shall understand, that thou hast shown kindness to my master,

15. he had not yet ended these words within himself, and behold Rebecca came out, the daughter of Bathuel, son of Melcha, wife to Nachor the brother of Abraham, having a pitcher on her shoulder:

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