Genesis 24:49-67 ▼

49 So now, if you wish to show gracious love and truth toward my master, tell me so. But if not, tell me, so that I may go elsewhere.|

50 |Since this has come from the LORD,| Laban and Bethuel both replied, |we cannot speak one way or another.

51 So here's Rebekah—she's right in front of you. Take her and go, so she can become a wife for your master's son, just as the LORD has decreed.|

52 When Abraham's servant heard what they had said, he bowed down to the ground before the LORD.

53 Then the servant brought out some silver and gold items, along with some clothing, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave gifts to her brother and to her mother.

54 He and the men with him ate and drank, and then they spent the night. When they got up the next morning, the servant requested, |Send me off to my master.|

55 But her brother and mother said, |Let the young lady stay with us a few days—at least ten—and after that she may go.|

56 |Please don't delay me,| the servant answered them. |The LORD has made my journey successful. Send me off so I can return to my master.|

57 But they said, |We'll call the young lady and see what she has to say about this.|

58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, |Do you want to go with this man?| |I will go,| she replied.

59 So they sent off their sister Rebekah, along with her personal assistant, Abraham's servant, and his men.

60 As they were leaving, they all blessed Rebekah by saying, |Our sister, may you become the mother of tens of millions! May your descendants take over the city gates of those who hate them.|

61 Then Rebekah and her young servant women got up, mounted their camels, and followed Abraham's servant, who took Rebekah and went on his way.

62 Later on, as Isaac was returning one evening from Beer-lahai-roi (he had been living in the Negev ),

63 Isaac went out walking in a field. He looked up, and all of a sudden there were some camels coming.

64 Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she quickly dismounted from her camel

65 and asked the servant, |Who is that man coming in the field to meet us?| |That's my master,| the servant told her. So she reached for a veil and covered herself.

66 Then the servant informed Isaac about everything he had done.

67 Later, Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother Sarah and married her. Isaac loved her, and that's how he was comforted following the loss of his mother.