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Genesis 24:54-63 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

54. Then he and his men had something to eat and drink, and they spent the night there. Early the next morning they got up and the servant said, “Now we must go back to my master.”

55. Rebekah’s mother and her brother said, “Let Rebekah stay with us for a short time. Let her stay with us ten days. After that she can go.”

56. But the servant said to them, “Don’t make me wait. The Lord has made my trip successful. Now let me go back to my master.”

57. Rebekah’s brother and mother said, “We will call Rebekah and ask her what she wants to do.”

58. They called her and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man now?” Rebekah said, “Yes, I will go.”

59. So they allowed Rebekah to go with Abraham’s servant and his men. Her nurse also went with them.

60. While Rebekah was leaving they said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of millions of people, and may your descendants defeat their enemies and take their cities.”

61. Then Rebekah and her nurse got on the camels and followed the servant and his men. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

62. Isaac had left Beer Lahai Roi and was now living in the Negev.

63. One evening he went out to the field to think. He looked up and saw the camels coming from far away.

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