27. saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The Lord has led me to the house of my master’s relatives!”
28. The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.
29. (Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.
30. When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say, “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.
31. Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”
32. So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.
33. When food was served, he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” “Tell us,” Laban said.
34. “I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.
35. “The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
36. My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.
37. My master made me swear an oath. He said, ‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,
38. but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’
39. But I said to my master, ‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’