New American Bible, Revised Edition

Genesis 24:57-67 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

57. They answered, “Let us call the young woman and see what she herself has to say about it.”

58. So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” She answered, “I will.”

59. At this they sent off their sister Rebekah and her nurse with Abraham’s servant and his men.

60. They blessed Rebekah and said:“Sister, may you growinto thousands of myriads;And may your descendants gain possessionof the gates of their enemies!”

61. Then Rebekah and her attendants started out; they mounted the camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

62. Meanwhile Isaac had gone from Beer-lahai-roi and was living in the region of the Negeb.

63. One day toward evening he went out to walk in the field, and caught sight of camels approaching.

64. Rebekah, too, caught sight of Isaac, and got down from her camel.

65. She asked the servant, “Who is the man over there, walking through the fields toward us?” “That is my master,” replied the servant. Then she took her veil and covered herself.

66. The servant recounted to Isaac all the things he had done.

67. Then Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent of his mother Sarah. He took Rebekah as his wife. Isaac loved her and found solace after the death of his mother.