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Genesis 24:17-26 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

17. And the servant runneth to meet her, and saith, `Let me swallow, I pray thee, a little water from thy pitcher;'

18. and she saith, `Drink, my lord;' and she hasteth, and letteth down her pitcher upon her hand, and giveth him drink.

19. And she finisheth giving him drink, and saith, `Also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking;'

20. and she hasteth, and emptieth her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and runneth again unto the well to draw, and draweth for all his camels.

21. And the man, wondering at her, remaineth silent, to know whether Jehovah hath made his way prosperous or not.

22. And it cometh to pass when the camels have finished drinking, that the man taketh a golden ring (whose weight [is] a bekah), and two bracelets for her hands (whose weight [is] ten [bekahs] of gold),

23. and saith, `Whose daughter [art] thou? declare to me, I pray thee, is the house of thy father a place for us to lodge in?'

24. And she saith unto him, `I [am] daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she hath borne to Nahor.'

25. She saith also unto him, `Both straw and provender [are] abundant with us, also a place to lodge in.'

26. And the man boweth, and doth obeisance to Jehovah,

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