Genesis 24:10-28

¹⁰Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and went out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; so he set out and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor. ¹¹He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water when it was evening, the time when women go out to draw water. ¹²And he said, “Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. ¹³Behold, I am standing by the spring, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water; ¹⁴now may it be that the young woman to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

¹⁵And it came about, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor, came out with her jar on her shoulder. ¹⁶The young woman was very beautiful, a virgin; no man had had relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up. ¹⁷Then the servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar.” ¹⁸And she said, “Drink, my lord”; then she quickly lowered her jar to her hand, and gave him a drink. ¹⁹Now when she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels until they have finished drinking.” ²⁰So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels. ²¹Meanwhile, the man was taking a close look at her in silence, to find out whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

²²When 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, ²³and he said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room for us to stay overnight at your father’s house?” ²⁴She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, Milcah’s son, whom she bore to Nahor.” ²⁵Again she said to him, “We have plenty of both straw and feed, and room to stay overnight.” ²⁶Then the man bowed low and worshiped the Lord. ²⁷And he said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned His kindness and His trustworthiness toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”

²⁸Then the young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these things.