Tree Of Life Version

Genesis 24:22-35 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

22. Now after the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a nose ring of gold weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets on her hands weighing ten shekels of gold.

23. “Whose daughter are you?” he said. “Please tell me. Is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”

24. She said to him, “I’m the daughter of Bethuel, son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.”

25. She also said to him, “There’s both straw and plenty of feed with us, as well as room to spend the night.”

26. Then the man bowed down and worshipped Adonai,

27. and he said, “Blessed be Adonai, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His loyalty and His truth toward my master. As for me, Adonai has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”

28. Then the young woman ran and told her mother’s house these things.

29. Now Rebekah had a brother and his name was Laban, and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

30. As soon as he saw the nose ring and the bracelets on his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying, “Thus the man said to me,” he went to the man. There he was, standing by the camels at the spring.

31. So he said, “Come in, blessed of Adonai. Why are you standing outside when I’ve tidied up the house and there is room for the camels?”

32. So the man came to the house and he unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels and water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.

33. Food was placed before him to eat, but he said, “I won’t eat until I’ve stated my business.” So he said, “Speak.”

34. “I am Abraham’s servant,” he said.

35. Adonai has blessed my master very much so that he has become great, and He has given to him flocks of sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male slaves and female slaves, camels and donkeys.