Genesis 24:5–11

⁵The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” ⁶Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there. ⁷The Lord, the God of heaven, ^rwho took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ^s‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ ^the will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. ⁸But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then ^uyou will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.” ⁹So the servant ^vput his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.

¹⁰Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to ^wMesopotamia¹ to the city of Nahor. ¹¹And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when ^xwomen go out to draw water.