16. Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.
17. Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”
18. “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.
19. When she had done so, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”
20. She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.
21. Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.
22. After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.
23. “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
24. She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.
25. We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”
26. The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord,