New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 24:1-11 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

1. Abraham was old, having seen many days, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.

2. Abraham said to the senior servant of his household, who had charge of all his possessions: “Put your hand under my thigh,

3. and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,

4. but that you will go to my own land and to my relatives to get a wife for my son Isaac.”

5. The servant asked him: “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Should I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”

6. Abraham told him, “Never take my son back there for any reason!

7. The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, and who confirmed by oath the promise he made to me, ‘I will give this land to your descendants’—he will send his angel before you, and you will get a wife for my son there.

8. If the woman is unwilling to follow you, you will be released from this oath to me. But never take my son back there!”

9. So the servant put his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore to him concerning this matter.

10. The servant then took ten of his master’s camels, and bearing all kinds of gifts from his master, he made his way to the city of Nahor in Aram Naharaim.

11. Near evening, at the time when women go out to draw water, he made the camels kneel by the well outside the city.