New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 24:31-37 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

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;