Genesis 24:54
Good News Translation
Then Abraham's servant and the men with him ate and drank, and spent the night there. When they got up in the morning, he said, "Let me go back to my master."

New Revised Standard Version
Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they rose in the morning, he said, “Send me back to my master.”

Contemporary English Version
Abraham's servant and the men with him ate and drank, then spent the night there. The next morning they got up, and the servant told Rebekah's mother and brother, "I would like to go back to my master now."

New American Bible
After he and the men with him had eaten and drunk, they spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Allow me to return to my master.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.

Send me.

Genesis 24:56,59 Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master. . . .

Genesis 28:5,6 And when Isaac had sent him away, he took his journey and went to Mesopotamia of Syria, to Laban, the son of Bathuel, the Syrian, brother to Rebecca, his mother. . . .

Genesis 45:24 So he sent away his brethren, and at their departing said to them: Be not angry in the way.

2 Samuel 18:19,27,28 And Achimaas the son of Sadoc said: I will run and tell the king, that the Lord hath done judgment for him from the hand of his enemies. . . .

Proverbs 22:29 Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 Say not: What thinkest thou is the cause that former times were better than they are now? for this manner of question is foolish.

Luke 8:38,39 Now the man out of whom the devils were departed besought him that he might be with him. But Jesus sent him away, saying: . . .

Context
Rebekah is Chosen
53And bringing forth vessels of silver and gold, and garments, he gave them to Rebecca, for a present. He offered gifts also to her brothers, and to her mother. 54And a banquet was made, and they ate and drank together, and lodged there. And in the morning, the servant arose, and said: Let me depart, that I may go to my master.55And her brother and mother answered: Let the maid stay, at least, ten days with us, and afterwards she shall depart.…
Cross References
Genesis 24:56
Stay me not, said he, because the Lord hath prospered my way: send me away, that I may go to my master.

Genesis 24:59
So they sent her away, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his company.

Genesis 30:25
And when Joseph was born, Jacob said to his father-in-law: Send me away, that I may return into my country, and to my land.

Genesis 24:53
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