6. Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.
7. The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’ — He will send His angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.
8. If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”
9. So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
10. The servant took 10 of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of his master’s goods in hand. Then he set out for Nahor’s town Aram-naharaim.
11. He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.
12. “Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
13. I am standing here at the spring where the daughters of the men of the town are coming out to draw water.
14. Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’ — let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
15. Before he had finished speaking, there was Rebekah — daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor — coming with a jug on her shoulder.
16. Now the girl was very beautiful, a young woman who had not known a man intimately. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came up.