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Genesis 24:17-34 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

17. Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar."

18. She said, "Drink, my lord"; and she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink.

19. Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw also for your camels until they have finished drinking."

20. So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

21. Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

22. When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,

23. and said, "Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to lodge in your father's house?"

24. She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."

25. Again she said to him, "We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to lodge in."

26. Then the man bowed low and worshiped the Lord.

27. He said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master's brothers."

28. Then the girl ran and told her mother's household about these things.

29. Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

30. When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, "This is what the man said to me," he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

31. And he said, "Come in, blessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside since I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?"

32. So the man entered the house. Then Laban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

33. But when food was set before him to eat, he said, "I will not eat until I have told my business." And he said, "Speak on."

34. So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.

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