Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Genesis 24:19-30 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

19. And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

20. And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water: and having drawn she gave to all the camels.

21. But he musing beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

22. And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles: and as many bracelets of ten sicles weight.

23. And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?

24. And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

25. And she said moreover to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.

26. The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,

27. Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.

28. Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house, all that she had heard.

29. And Rebecca had a brother named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

30. And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying: Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,