Genesis 24

1Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:2 · Gen 18:11 · Gen 21:5 · Gen 24:35 · Gen 25:20 · +10 more

2Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my thigh.Cross-references: Gen 15:2 · Gen 24:9 · Gen 39:4 · Gen 39:8 · Gen 44:1 · Gen 47:29 · +2 more

3I will make you swear by Yahweh, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you shall not take a wife for my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I live.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 6:4 · Gen 10:15 · Gen 14:19 · Gen 14:22 · Gen 21:23 · +32 more

4But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”Cross-references: Gen 11:25 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 22:20 · Gen 28:2

5The servant said to him, “What if the woman isn’t willing to follow me to this land? Must I bring your son again to the land you came from?”Cross-references: Gen 24:58 · Ex 9:2 · Ex 20:7 · Prov 13:16 · Jer 4:2

6Abraham said to him, “Beware that you don’t bring my son there again.Cross-references: Gal 5:1 · Heb 10:39 · Heb 11:9 · Heb 11:13 · 2Pet 2:20

7Yahweh, the God of heaven—who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, ‘I will give this land to your offspring—he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:8 · Gen 22:16 · Gen 26:3 · +25 more

8If the woman isn’t willing to follow you, then you shall be clear from this oath to me. Only you shall not bring my son there again.”Cross-references: Gen 24:4 · Num 30:5 · Num 30:8 · Josh 2:17 · Josh 9:20 · John 8:32 · +1 more

9The servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.Cross-references: Gen 24:2

10The servant took ten of his master’s camels, and departed, having a variety of good things of his master’s with him. He arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.Cross-references: Gen 11:31 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 27:43 · Gen 29:1 · Gen 29:4 · Gen 39:4 · +6 more

11He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.Cross-references: Gen 24:13 · Gen 33:13 · Ex 2:16 · 1Sam 9:11 · Prov 12:10 · John 4:7

12He said, “Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.Cross-references: Gen 15:1 · Gen 17:7 · Gen 24:27 · Gen 24:42 · Gen 24:48 · Gen 26:24 · +21 more

13Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. The daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.Cross-references: Gen 24:11 · Gen 24:43 · Gen 29:9 · Ex 2:16 · Judg 5:11 · 1Sam 9:11 · +3 more

14Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, ‘Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,’ then she says, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,’—let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”Cross-references: Gen 15:8 · Gen 24:44 · Ex 4:1 · Judg 6:17 · Judg 6:37 · Judg 7:13 · +11 more

15Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.Cross-references: Gen 11:27 · Gen 11:29 · Gen 21:14 · Gen 22:20 · Gen 24:24 · Gen 24:45 · +12 more

16The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.Cross-references: Gen 4:1 · Gen 26:7 · Gen 39:6 · Num 31:17 · Song 5:2

17The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”Cross-references: Gen 26:1 · 1Ki 17:10 · Isa 21:14 · Isa 30:25 · Isa 35:6 · Isa 41:17 · +3 more

18She said, “Drink, my lord.” She hurried, and let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him a drink.Cross-references: Gen 24:14 · Prov 31:26 · 1Pet 3:8 · 1Pet 4:8

19When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I will also draw for your camels, until they have finished drinking.”Cross-references: Gen 24:14 · Gen 24:45 · 1Pet 4:9

20She hurried, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again to the well to draw, and drew for all his camels.

21The man looked steadfastly at her, remaining silent, to know whether Yahweh had made his journey prosperous or not.Cross-references: Gen 24:12 · Gen 24:56 · 2Sam 7:18 · Ps 34:1 · Ps 107:1 · Ps 107:8 · +5 more

22As the camels had finished drinking, the man took a golden ring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold,Cross-references: Gen 23:15 · Gen 24:30 · Gen 24:47 · Ex 32:2 · Esth 5:1 · Isa 3:19 · +5 more

23and said, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to stay?”

24She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”Cross-references: Gen 11:29 · Gen 22:20 · Gen 22:23 · Gen 24:15

25She said moreover to him, “We have both straw and feed enough, and room to lodge in.”Cross-references: Gen 18:4 · Judg 19:19 · Isa 32:8 · 1Pet 4:9

26The man bowed his head, and worshiped Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 22:5 · Gen 24:48 · Gen 24:52 · Ex 4:31 · Ex 12:27 · Ex 34:8 · +10 more

27He said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his loving kindness and his truth toward my master. As for me, Yahweh has led me on the way to the house of my master’s relatives.”Cross-references: Gen 9:26 · Gen 13:8 · Gen 14:20 · Gen 24:4 · Gen 24:12 · Gen 24:21 · +23 more

28The young lady ran, and told her mother’s house about these words.Cross-references: Gen 24:48 · Gen 24:55 · Gen 24:67 · Gen 31:33

29Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban. Laban ran out to the man, to the spring.Cross-references: Gen 24:55 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 29:5 · Gen 29:13

30When he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he came to the man. Behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

31He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”Cross-references: Gen 26:29 · Judg 17:2 · Ruth 3:10 · Ps 115:15 · Prov 17:8 · Prov 18:16

32The man came into the house, and he unloaded the camels. He gave straw and feed for the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.Cross-references: Gen 18:4 · Gen 19:2 · Gen 43:24 · Judg 19:21 · 1Sam 25:41 · Luke 7:44 · +2 more

33Food was set before him to eat, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told my message.” Laban said, “Speak on.”Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Ps 132:3 · Prov 22:29 · Eccl 9:10 · John 4:14 · John 4:31 · +2 more

34He said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

35Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. Yahweh has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 12:16 · Gen 13:2 · Gen 24:1 · Gen 25:11 · Gen 26:12 · +10 more

36Sarah, my master’s wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.Cross-references: Gen 11:29 · Gen 17:15 · Gen 18:10 · Gen 21:1 · Gen 21:10 · Gen 25:5 · +1 more

37My 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,Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 24:2 · Gen 27:46 · Ezra 9:1

38but you shall go to my father’s house, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 24:4 · Gen 31:19

39I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’Cross-references: Gen 24:5

40He said to me, ‘Yahweh, before whom I walk, will send his angel with you, and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my relatives, and of my father’s house.Cross-references: Gen 5:22 · Gen 5:24 · Gen 6:9 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 24:7 · Gen 48:15 · +12 more

41Then you will be clear from my oath, when you come to my relatives. If they don’t give her to you, you shall be clear from my oath.’Cross-references: Gen 24:8 · Deut 29:12

42I came today to the spring, and said, ‘Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, if now you do prosper my way which I go—Cross-references: Gen 24:12 · Gen 24:31 · Gen 39:3 · Ezra 8:21 · Neh 1:11 · Ps 37:5 · +4 more

43behold, I am standing by this spring of water. Let it happen, that the maiden who comes out to draw, to whom I will say, “Please give me a little water from your pitcher to drink,”Cross-references: Gen 24:13

44then she tells me, “Drink, and I will also draw for your camels,”—let her be the woman whom Yahweh has appointed for my master’s son.’Cross-references: Gen 2:22 · Gen 24:14 · Prov 16:33 · Prov 18:22 · Prov 19:14 · Isa 32:8 · +3 more

45Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’Cross-references: Gen 24:15 · 1Sam 1:13 · 2Sam 7:27 · Neh 2:4 · Isa 58:9 · Isa 65:24 · +7 more

46She hurried and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels a drink.Cross-references: Gen 24:18

47I asked her, and said, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She said, ‘The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor’s son, whom Milcah bore to him.’ I put the ring on her nose, and the bracelets on her hands.Cross-references: Gen 24:22 · Gen 24:53 · Ps 45:9 · Ps 45:13 · Isa 62:3 · Ezek 16:10 · +1 more

48I bowed my head, and worshiped Yahweh, and blessed Yahweh, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master’s brother’s daughter for his son.Cross-references: Gen 22:23 · Gen 24:26 · Gen 24:52 · Ex 18:20 · Ezra 8:21 · Ps 32:8 · +5 more

49Now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me. If not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.”Cross-references: Gen 32:10 · Gen 47:29 · Num 20:17 · Deut 2:27 · Josh 2:14 · Prov 3:3

50Then Laban and Bethuel answered, “The thing proceeds from Yahweh. We can’t speak to you bad or good.Cross-references: Gen 24:15 · Gen 24:28 · Gen 24:53 · Gen 24:55 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 31:24 · +6 more

51Behold, Rebekah is before you. Take her, and go, and let her be your master’s son’s wife, as Yahweh has spoken.”Cross-references: Gen 20:15 · Gen 24:15 · 2Sam 16:10

52When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed himself down to the earth to Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 24:26 · Gen 24:48 · 1Chr 29:20 · 2Chr 20:18 · Ps 34:1 · Ps 95:6 · +4 more

53The servant brought out jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave precious things to her brother and her mother.Cross-references: Gen 24:10 · Gen 24:22 · Ex 3:22 · Ex 11:2 · Ex 12:35 · Deut 33:13 · +4 more

54They ate and drank, he and the men who were with him, and stayed all night. They rose up in the morning, and he said, “Send me away to my master.”Cross-references: Gen 24:56 · Gen 24:59 · Gen 28:5 · Gen 45:24 · 2Sam 18:19 · 2Sam 18:27 · +3 more

55Her brother and her mother said, “Let the young lady stay with us a few days, at least ten. After that she will go.”Cross-references: Gen 4:3 · Lev 25:29 · Judg 14:8

56He said to them, “Don’t hinder me, since Yahweh has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”Cross-references: Gen 45:9 · Josh 1:8 · Prov 25:25 · Isa 48:15

57They said, “We will call the young lady, and ask her.”

58They called Rebekah, and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”Cross-references: Ps 45:10 · Luke 1:38

59They sent away Rebekah, their sister, with her nurse, Abraham’s servant, and his men.Cross-references: Gen 24:50 · Gen 24:53 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 35:8 · Num 11:12 · 1Thess 2:5

60They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”Cross-references: Gen 1:28 · Gen 9:1 · Gen 14:19 · Gen 17:16 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 28:3 · +6 more

61Rebekah arose with her ladies. They rode on the camels, and followed the man. The servant took Rebekah, and went his way.Cross-references: Gen 2:24 · Gen 31:34 · 1Sam 30:17 · Esth 8:10 · Esth 8:14 · Ps 45:10

62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.Cross-references: Gen 12:9 · Gen 16:14 · Gen 20:1 · Gen 25:11

63Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes and looked. Behold, there were camels coming.Cross-references: Josh 1:8 · Ps 1:2 · Ps 77:11 · Ps 104:34 · Ps 119:15 · Ps 119:27 · +4 more

64Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she got off the camel.Cross-references: Josh 15:18 · Judg 1:14

65She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.” She took her veil, and covered herself.Cross-references: Gen 20:16 · 1Cor 11:5 · 1Cor 11:10 · 1Tim 2:9

66The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.Cross-references: Mark 6:30

67Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife. He loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.Cross-references: Gen 2:22 · Gen 18:6 · Gen 18:9 · Gen 23:1 · Gen 25:20 · Gen 29:18 · +8 more