5 And the servant said unto him, Perhaps the woman will not go with me into this land, shall I bring thy son back to the land whence thou camest?

6 Abraham said to him, 'Take heed, do not bring my son back there;

7 Господь, Бог неба [и Бог земли], Который взял меня из дома отца моего и из земли рождения моего, Который говорил мне и Который клялся мне, говоря: [тебе и] потомству твоему дам сию землю, – Он пошлет Ангела Своего пред тобою, и ты возьмешь жену сыну моему [Исааку] оттуда;

8 если же не захочет женщина идти с тобою [в землю сию], ты будешь свободен от сей клятвы моей; только сына моего не возвращай туда.

9 И положил раб руку свою под стегно Авраама, господина своего, и клялся ему в сем.

10 И взял раб из верблюдов господина своего десять верблюдов и пошел. В руках у него были также всякие сокровища господина его. Он встал и пошел в Месопотамию, в город Нахора,

11 и остановил верблюдов вне города, у колодезя воды, под вечер, в то время, когда выходят женщины черпать [воду],

12 And he said, 'Lord, God of my lord Abraham! send her this day to meet me, and show mercy to my lord Abraham;

13 Behold, I am standing by a fountain of water, and the daughters of the inhabitants of the city go out to draw water;

14 And the maiden to whom I will say, 'Tilt your pitcher, and I will drink,' and who will say, 'Drink, and I will give your camels to drink,' this is the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac; and by this I know that you are showing mercy to my lord [Abraham].

15 And before he had ceased to speak, behold, Rebekah came forth, who was born of Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor Abraham's brother, and her pitcher was on her shoulder.

16 The maiden was beautiful in appearance, a virgin whom her husband did not know. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and went up.

17 And the servant ran to meet her, and said, 'Give me a little water to drink out of your pitcher.'

18 And she said, 'Drink, my lord.' And straightway she let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink.

19 And when she had given him to drink, she said, 'I will draw also for your camels, until they are all drunk.'

20 And straightway she poured water out of her pitcher into the water, and ran again to the well to draw [water], and drew for all his camels.

21 And the man looked at her with amazement in silence, desiring to know whether the Lord had blessed his way or not.

22 And when the camels had ceased to drink, the man took an earring of gold, weighing half a shekel, and two wrists in her hands, weighing ten shekels of gold;

23 and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' Tell me, is there a place for us to spend the night in your father's house?

24 And she said to him, 'I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor.'

25 And she said to him, 'We have plenty of straw and fodder, and there is a place to stay for the night.'