⁵But the servant asked, “What if the young woman will not leave home to come with me to this land? Shall I send your son back to the land you came from?”

⁶Abraham answered, “Make sure that you don’t send my son back there! ⁷The Lord, the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and from the land of my relatives, and he solemnly promised me that he would give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel before you, so that you can get a wife there for my son. ⁸If the young woman is not willing to come with you, you will be free from this promise. But you must not under any circumstances take my son back there.” ⁹So the servant put his hand between the thighs of Abraham, his master, and made a vow to do what Abraham had asked.

¹⁰The servant, who was in charge of Abraham’s property, took ten of his master’s camels and went to the city where Nahor had lived in northern Mesopotamia. ¹¹When he arrived, he made the camels kneel down at the well outside the city. It was late afternoon, the time when women came out to get water.

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