13. Here I am at the well where the young women of the city will be coming to get water.
14. I will say to one of them, ‘Please, lower your jar and let me have a drink.’ If she says, ‘Drink, and I will also bring water for your camels,’ may she be the one that you have chosen for your servant Isaac. If this happens, I will know that you have kept your promise to my master.”
15. Before he had finished praying, Rebecca arrived with a water jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel, who was the son of Abraham's brother Nahor and his wife Milcah.
16. She was a very beautiful young woman and still a virgin. She went down to the well, filled her jar, and came back.
17. The servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a drink of water from your jar.”
18. She said, “Drink, sir,” and quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and held it while he drank.
19. When he had finished, she said, “I will also bring water for your camels and let them have all they want.”
20. She quickly emptied her jar into the animals' drinking-trough and ran to the well to get more water, until she had watered all his camels.
21. The man kept watching her in silence, to see if the Lord had given him success.
22. When she had finished, the man took an expensive gold ring and put it in her nose and put two large gold bracelets on her arms.
23. He said, “Please tell me who your father is. Is there room in his house for my men and me to spend the night?”
24. “My father is Bethuel son of Nahor and Milcah,” she answered.
25. “There is plenty of straw and fodder at our house, and there is a place for you to stay.”
26. Then the man knelt down and worshipped the Lord.
27. He said, “Praise the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has faithfully kept his promise to my master. The Lord has led me straight to my master's relatives.”
28. The young woman ran to her mother's house and told the whole story.
29. Now Rebecca had a brother named Laban, and he ran outside to go to the well where Abraham's servant was.
30. Laban had seen the nose-ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms and had heard her say what the man had told her. He went to Abraham's servant, who was standing by his camels at the well,
31. and said, “Come home with me. You are a man whom the Lord has blessed. Why are you standing out here? I have a room ready for you in my house, and there is a place for your camels.”
32. So the man went into the house, and Laban unloaded the camels and gave them straw and fodder. Then he brought water for Abraham's servant and his men to wash their feet.
33. When food was brought, the man said, “I will not eat until I have said what I have to say.”Laban said, “Go on and speak.”