20. With that, she quickly emptied her jug into the drinking trough and ran back to the well to draw more water, until she had drawn enough for all the camels.
21. The man watched her the whole time, silently waiting to learn whether or not the Lord had made his journey successful.
22. When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose-ring weighing half a shekel, and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels for her wrists.
23. Then he asked her: “Whose daughter are you? Tell me, please. And is there a place in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
24. She answered: “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.
25. We have plenty of straw and fodder,” she added, “and also a place to spend the night.”
26. The man then knelt and bowed down to the Lord,
27. saying: “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not let his kindness and fidelity toward my master fail. As for me, the Lord has led me straight to the house of my master’s brother.”
28. Then the young woman ran off and told her mother’s household what had happened.
29. Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban. Laban rushed outside to the man at the spring.
30. When he saw the nose-ring and the bracelets on his sister’s arms and when he heard Rebekah repeating what the man had said to her, he went to him while he was standing by the camels at the spring.
31. He said: “Come, blessed of the Lord! Why are you standing outside when I have made the house ready, as well as a place for the camels?”
32. The man then went inside; and while the camels were being unloaded and provided with straw and fodder, water was brought to bathe his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
33. But when food was set before him, he said, “I will not eat until I have told my story.” “Go ahead,” they replied.
34. “I am Abraham’s servant,” he began.
35. “The Lord has blessed my master so abundantly that he has become wealthy; he has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.
36. My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him everything he owns.
37. My master put me under oath, saying: ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live;