New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Genesis 24
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;
38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
39 I said to my master, ’Suppose the woman does not follow me.’
40 He said to me, ’The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you to make your journey successful, and you will take a wife for my son from my relatives and from my father’s house;
41 then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my relatives; and if they do not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.’
42 "So I came today to the spring, and said, ’O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now You will make my journey on which I go successful;
43 behold, I am standing by the spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, "Please let me drink a little water from your jar";
44 and she will say to me, "You drink, and I will draw for your camels also"; let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.’
45 "Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and I said to her, ’Please let me drink.’
46 She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ’Drink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.
47 Then I asked her, and said, ’Whose daughter are you?’ And she said, ’The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him’; and I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her wrists.
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