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.
12. Then he said: “Lord, God of my master Abraham, let it turn out favorably for me today and thus deal graciously with my master Abraham.
13. While I stand here at the spring and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water,