29. Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, who ran out to meet the man at the spring.
30. He had seen the nose-ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man had said. So he rushed out to the spring, where the man was still standing beside his camels.
31. Laban said to him, “Come and stay with us, you who are blessed by the lord! Why are you standing here outside the town when I have a room all ready for you and a place prepared for the camels?”
32. So the man went home with Laban, and Laban unloaded the camels, gave him straw for their bedding, fed them, and provided water for the man and the camel drivers to wash their feet.
33. Then food was served. But Abraham’s servant said, “I don’t want to eat until I have told you why I have come.”“All right,” Laban said, “tell us.”
34. “I am Abraham’s servant,” he explained.
35. “And the lord has greatly blessed my master; he has become a wealthy man. The lord has given him flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, a fortune in silver and gold, and many male and female servants and camels and donkeys.
36. “When Sarah, my master’s wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master’s son, and my master has given him everything he owns.
37. And my master made me take an oath. He said, ‘Do not allow my son to marry one of these local Canaanite women.