Genesis 24:28–25:26
28 Then athe girl ran and told her mother’s household about these things.
29 Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was aLaban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.
30 When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s 1wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “2This is what the man said to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.
31 And he said, “aCome in, bblessed of the Lord! Why do you stand outside since cI have prepared the house, and a place for the camels?”
32 So the man entered the house. Then 1aLaban unloaded the camels, and he gave straw and feed to the camels, and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
33 But when food was set before him to eat, he said, “I will not eat until I have told my business.” And he said, “Speak on.”
34 So he said, “I am aAbraham’s servant.
35 “The Lord has greatly ablessed my master, so that he has become 1rich; and He has given him bflocks and herds, and silver and gold, and servants and maids, and camels and donkeys.
36 “Now aSarah my master’s wife bore a son to my master 1in her old age, and bhe has given him all that he has.
37 “aMy master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I 1live;
38 but you shall go to my father’s house and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son.’
39 “aI said to my master, ‘Suppose the woman does not follow me.’
40 “He said to me, ‘aThe Lord, before whom I have bwalked, will send cHis 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 athen 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 aI 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 bsuccessful;
43 behold, aI am standing by the 1spring, and may it be that the maiden who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “bPlease 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 aspeaking in my heart, behold, bRebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and went down to the spring and drew, and cI said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’
46 “She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘aDrink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.
47 “aThen 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 bring on her nose, and the bracelets on her 1wrists.
48 “And I abowed low and worshiped the Lord, and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, bwho had guided me in the right way to take the daughter of my master’s 1kinsman for his son.
49 “So now if you are going to 1adeal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, let me know, that I may turn to the right hand or the left.”
50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “aThe matter comes from the Lord; bso we cannot speak to you bad or good.
51 “Here is Rebekah before you, take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the Lord has spoken.”
52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he abowed himself to the ground 1before the Lord.
53 The servant brought out aarticles of silver and articles of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave precious things to her brother and to her mother.
54 Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank and spent the night. When they arose in the morning, he said, “aSend me away to my master.”
55 But her brother and her mother said, “aLet the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”
56 He said to them, “Do not delay me, since athe Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”
57 And they said, “We will call the girl and 1consult her wishes.”
58 Then they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” And she said, “I will go.”
59 Thus they sent away their sister Rebekah and aher nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.
60 They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,
aBecome thousands of ten thousands,
And may byour 1descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”
61 Then Rebekah arose with her maids, and they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and departed.
62 Now Isaac had come from going to aBeer-lahai-roi; for he 1was living in bthe 2Negev.
63 Isaac went out ato 1meditate in the field toward evening; and bhe lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, camels were coming.
64 Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac she dismounted from the camel.
65 She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” And the servant said, “He is my master.” Then she took her 1veil and covered herself.
66 The servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.
67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and ahe took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and bhe loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after chis mother’s death.
1 Now Abraham took another wife, 1whose name was Keturah.
2 aShe bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.
3 Jokshan 1became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.
4 The sons of Midian were Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the sons of Keturah.
5 aNow Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac;
6 but to the sons of 1his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and asent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.
7 These are 1all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, aone hundred and seventy-five years.
8 Abraham breathed his last and died ain a 1ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was bgathered to his people.
9 Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in athe cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,
10 athe field which Abraham purchased from the sons of Heth; there Abraham was buried with Sarah his wife.
11 It came about after the death of Abraham, that aGod blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac 1lived by bBeer-lahai-roi.
12 Now these are the records of the generations of aIshmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maid, bore to Abraham;
13 and these are the names of athe sons of Ishmael, by their names, 1in the order of their birth: Nebaioth, the firstborn of Ishmael, and Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam
14 and Mishma and Dumah and Massa,
15 Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish and Kedemah.
16 These are the sons of Ishmael and these are their names, by their villages, and by their camps; atwelve princes according to their 1tribes.
17 These are the years of the life of Ishmael, aone hundred and thirty-seven years; and he breathed his last and died, and was bgathered to his people.
18 They 1settled from aHavilah to bShur which is 2east of Egypt 3as one goes toward Assyria; che 4settled in defiance of all his 5relatives.
19 Now these are the records of athe generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son: Abraham 1became the father of Isaac;
20 and Isaac was forty years old when he took aRebekah, the bdaughter of Bethuel the 1Aramean of Paddan-aram, the csister of Laban the 1Aramean, to be his wife.
21 Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife, because she was barren; and athe Lord 1answered him and Rebekah his wife bconceived.
22 But the children struggled together within her; and she said, “If it is so, why then am I this way?” So she went to ainquire of the Lord.
“aTwo nations are in your womb;
bAnd two peoples will be separated from your body;
And one people shall be stronger than the other;
And cthe older shall serve the younger.”
24 When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 Now the first came forth red, aall over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.
26 Afterward his brother came forth with ahis hand holding on to Esau’s heel, so bhis name was called 1Jacob; and Isaac was csixty years old when she gave birth to them.