¹²Then he prayed, “Lord, God of my master Abraham,^c make me successful^d today, and show kindness^e to my master Abraham. ¹³See, I am standing beside this spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.^f ¹⁴May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink,^g and I’ll water your camels too’^h—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac.ⁱ By this I will know^j that you have shown kindness to my master.”

¹⁵Before he had finished praying,^k Rebekah^l came out with her jar on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel^m son of Milkah,ⁿ who was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor.^o ¹⁶The woman was very beautiful,^p a virgin;^q no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar and came up again.

¹⁷The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give me a little water from your jar.”^r

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Cross references

a Ex 2:15
bver 13; Ge 29:2, 9–10; Ex 2:16; 1 Sa 9:11; Jn 4:7
cver 27, 42, 48; Ge 26:24; 28:13; 31:42, 53; 32:9; 43:23; 46:3; Ex 3:6, 15, 16; 4:5; 1 Ki 18:36; Ps 75:9; 94:7
dver 21, 40, 51, 56; Ge 27:20; Ne 1:11
eSee Ge 19:19; Jos 2:12; Job 10:12
fSee ver 11, 43; Ge 29:8
gver 18, 46
hver 19
iver 44
j Jos 2:12; Jdg 6:17, 37; 1 Sa 14:10; 1 Ki 13:3; Ps 86:17; Isa 38:7; Jer 44:29
kver 45
lSee Ge 22:23
mSee Ge 22:22
nSee Ge 11:29
oSee Ge 11:29
pSee Ge 12:11
q Dt 22:15–21
rver 45; 1 Ki 17:10; Jn 4:7