5. The servant asked him, “What if the woman doesn’t want to come back to this land with me? Should I take your son all the way back to the land you came from?”
6. “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said to him.
7. “The Lord God of heaven took me from my father’s home and the land of my family. He spoke to me and swore this oath: ‘I will give this land to your descendants.’“God will send his angel ahead of you, and you will get my son a wife from there.
8. If the woman doesn’t want to come back with you, then you’ll be free from this oath that you swear to me. But don’t take my son back there.”
9. So the servant did as his master Abraham commanded and swore the oath to him concerning this.
10. Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and left, taking with him all of his master’s best things. He traveled to Aram Naharaim, Nahor’s city.
11. The servant had the camels kneel down outside the city by the well. It was evening, when the women would go out to draw water.
12. Then he prayed, “Lord, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today. Show your kindness to Abraham.
13. Here I am standing by the spring, and the girls of the city are coming out to draw water.
14. I will ask a girl, ‘May I please have a drink from your jar?’ If she answers, ‘Have a drink, and I’ll also water your camels,’ let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. This way I’ll know that you’ve shown your kindness to my master.”
15. Before he had finished praying, Rebekah came with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.
16. The girl was a very attractive virgin. No man had ever had sexual intercourse with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came back.
17. The servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a drink of water.”
18. “Drink, sir,” she said. She quickly lowered her jar to her hand and gave him a drink.
19. When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also keep drawing water for your camels until they’ve had enough to drink.”
20. So she quickly emptied her jar into the water trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew enough for all his camels.