1. Abraham lived to be a very old man. The Lord blessed him and everything he did.
2. Abraham’s oldest servant was in charge of everything he owned. Abraham called that servant to him and said, “Put your hand under my leg.
3. Now I want you to make a promise to me. Promise to me before the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, that you will not allow my son to marry a girl from Canaan. We live among these people, but don’t let him marry a Canaanite girl.
4. Go back to my country, to my own people, to find a wife for my son Isaac. Bring her here to him.”
5. The servant said to him, “Maybe this woman will not want to come back with me to this land. If that happens, should I take your son with me to your homeland?”
6. Abraham said to him, “No, don’t take my son to that place.
7. The Lord, the God of heaven, brought me from my homeland to this place. That place was the home of my father and the home of my family, but he promised that this new land would belong to my family. May he send his angel before you so that you can choose a wife for my son.
8. If the girl refuses to come with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not take my son back to that place.”
9. So the servant put his hand under his master’s leg and made the promise.
10. The servant took ten of Abraham’s camels and left that place. The servant carried with him many different kinds of beautiful gifts. He went to Mesopotamia, to Nahor’s city.
11. In the evening, when the women come out to get water, he went to the water well outside the city. He made the camels kneel down at the well.