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Genesis 24:21-36 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

21. But he musing beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

22. And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles: and as many bracelets of ten sicles weight.

23. And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?

24. And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

25. And she said moreover to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.

26. The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,

27. Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.

28. Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house, all that she had heard.

29. And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

30. And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying: Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,

31. And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord: why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.

32. And he brought him in into his lodging: and he unharnessed the camels and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were come with him.

33. And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.

34. And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:

35. And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, menservants and womenservants, camels and asses.

36. And Sara my master's wife hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had.

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