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.
12. The servant said, “Lord, you are the God of my master Abraham. Please show your kindness to my master by helping me find a wife for his son Isaac.
13. Here I am, standing by this well of water, and the young women from the city are coming out to get water.
14. I will say to one of them, ‘Please put your jar down so that I can drink.’ Let her answer show whether she is the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. If she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give water to your camels,’ I will know that she is the right one. It will be proof that you have shown kindness to my master.”
15. Before the servant finished praying, a young woman named Rebekah came to the well. She was the daughter of Bethuel. (Bethuel was the son of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham’s brother.) Rebekah came to the well with her water jar on her shoulder.
16. She was very pretty. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the well and filled her jar.
17. Then the servant ran to her and said, “Please give me a little water to drink from your jar.”
18. Rebekah quickly lowered the jar from her shoulder and gave him a drink. She said, “Drink this, sir.”
19. As soon as she finished giving him something to drink, Rebekah said, “I will also pour some water for your camels.”
20. So Rebekah quickly poured all the water from her jar into the drinking trough for the camels. Then she ran to the well to get more water, and she gave water to all the camels.
21. The servant quietly watched her. He wanted to be sure that the Lord had given him an answer and had made his trip successful.