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Genesis 24:25-37 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

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.

35. The Lord has greatly blessed my master, so that he has become rich; and He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.

36. Now Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.

37. My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I live;

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