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;
38. instead, you must go to my father’s house, to my own family, to get a wife for my son.’
39. When I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not follow me?’
40. he replied: ‘The Lord, in whose presence I have always walked, will send his angel with you and make your journey successful, and so you will get a wife for my son from my own family and my father’s house.
41. Then you will be freed from my curse. If you go to my family and they refuse you, then, too, you will be free from my curse.’
42. “When I came to the spring today, I said: ‘Lord, God of my master Abraham, please make successful the journey I am on.
43. While I stand here at the spring, if I say to a young woman who comes out to draw water, ‘Please give me a little water from your jug,’
44. and she answers, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels, too—then she is the woman whom the Lord has decided upon for my master’s son.’
45. “I had scarcely finished saying this to myself when Rebekah came out with a jug on her shoulder. After she went down to the spring and drew water, I said to her, ‘Please let me have a drink.’
46. She quickly lowered the jug she was carrying and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels, too.’ So I drank, and she watered the camels also.