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Genesis 24:1¹Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 112:1-3 Gal 3:9 Gen 13:2 Prov 10:22 Matt 6:33 Gen 12:2 Gen 18:11 Eph 1:3 1 Tim 4:8 Gen 24:35

Genesis 24:2²Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thighCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 47:29 Gen 39:4-6 Gen 15:2 Gen 24:9-10 Gen 39:8-9 Gen 44:1 1 Chr 29:24

Genesis 24:3³so that I may make you solemnly promise by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 26:34-35 2 Cor 6:14-17 Deut 7:3-4 Gen 28:8 Neh 13:25 1 Cor 7:39 2 Kgs 19:15 Exod 34:16 Gen 10:15-19 Jer 10:11

Genesis 24:4⁴You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 28:2 Gen 11:25-12:1 Gen 12:7 Gen 22:20-23

Genesis 24:5⁵The servant asked him, “What if the woman is not willing to come back with me to this land? Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 4:2 Exod 20:7 Exod 9:2 Gen 24:58 Prov 13:16

Genesis 24:6⁶“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Pet 2:20-22 Gal 5:1 Heb 10:39 Heb 11:9 Heb 11:13-16

Genesis 24:7⁷“The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, promised me with a solemn oath, ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel before you so that you may find a wife for my son from there.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 33:2 Ps 34:7 Exod 23:20-23 Gen 13:15 Heb 1:14 Exod 32:13 Gen 15:18 Ps 103:20 Ps 32:8 Ps 73:24

Genesis 24:8⁸But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 2:17-20 Num 30:5 Num 30:8 Acts 7:2 Gen 24:4-6 John 8:32 Josh 9:20

Genesis 24:9⁹So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:2

Genesis 24:10¹⁰Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. He journeyed to the region of Aram Naharaim and the city of Nahor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 23:4 Gen 11:31 1 Chr 19:6 Acts 2:9 Gen 24:2 Gen 27:43 Gen 29:1 Gen 29:4-5 Gen 39:22-23 Gen 39:4-6

Genesis 24:11¹¹He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Sam 9:11 Exod 2:16 John 4:7 Gen 24:13-20 Gen 33:13-14 Prov 12:10

Genesis 24:12¹²He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. Be faithful to my master Abraham.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:27 Exod 3:6 Gen 26:24 2 Kgs 2:14 Exod 3:15 Gen 24:42 Gen 24:48 Ps 122:6 1 Kgs 18:36 1 Thess 3:10-11

Genesis 24:13¹³Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:43 Ps 37:5 1 Sam 9:11 Exod 2:16 Gen 24:11 Gen 29:9-10 John 4:7 Judg 5:11 Prov 3:6

Genesis 24:14¹⁴I will say to a young woman, ‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Judg 6:37 Judg 6:17 Gen 15:8 2 Kgs 20:8-11 2 Sam 5:24 Isa 7:11 1 Sam 14:8-10 Exod 4:1-9 Judg 18:5 Prov 19:14

Genesis 24:15¹⁵Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah (Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 11:29 Gen 24:45 Isa 65:24 Dan 9:20-23 Ps 65:2 Exod 2:16 Gen 22:20-23 Isa 58:9 Ps 145:18-19 Ps 34:15

Genesis 24:16¹⁶Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever been physically intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 26:7 Gen 39:6 Gen 4:1 Num 31:17-18

Genesis 24:17¹⁷Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:7 1 Kgs 17:10 Gen 26:1-35 Isa 21:14 Isa 30:25 Isa 35:6-7 Isa 41:17-18 Isa 49:10 John 4:9

Genesis 24:18¹⁸“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 3:8 1 Pet 4:8-9 Gen 24:14 Prov 31:26

Genesis 24:19¹⁹When she had done so, she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:14 1 Pet 4:9 Gen 24:45-46

Genesis 24:20²⁰She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 24:21²¹Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:12 Ps 107:43 2 Sam 7:18-20 Luke 2:19 Luke 2:51 Ps 116:1-7 Gen 24:56 Ps 107:1 Ps 107:15 Ps 107:8

Genesis 24:22²²After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka and two gold wrist bracelets weighing ten shekels and gave them to her.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:11-12 Exod 32:2-3 Gen 23:15-16 Gen 24:30 Gen 24:47 Jer 2:32 Esth 5:1 Isa 3:19-23 1 Pet 3:3 1 Pet 3:8

Genesis 24:23²³“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 24:24²⁴She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:15 Gen 22:23 Gen 11:29 Gen 22:20

Genesis 24:25²⁵We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 4:9 Isa 32:8 Gen 18:4-8 Judg 19:19-21

Genesis 24:26²⁶The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:48 Exod 4:31 Gen 24:52 Exod 12:27 1 Chr 29:20 2 Chr 20:18 2 Chr 29:30 Exod 34:8 Mic 6:6 Neh 8:6

Genesis 24:27²⁷saying, “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master! The Lord has led me to the house of my master’s relatives!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:48 Gen 24:12 Gen 32:10 Ps 98:3 Ruth 4:14 1 Sam 25:32 Exod 18:10 2 Sam 18:28 Luke 1:68 Prov 3:6

Genesis 24:28²⁸The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about these things.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:48 Gen 24:55 Gen 24:67 Gen 31:33

Genesis 24:29²⁹(Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 29:5 Gen 24:55 Gen 29:13 Gen 24:60

Genesis 24:30³⁰When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say, “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 24:31³¹Laban said to him, “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! Why are you standing out here when I have prepared the house and a place for the camels?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 26:29 Ruth 3:10 Ps 115:15 Judg 17:2 Prov 18:16 Prov 17:8

Genesis 24:32³²So Abraham’s servant went to the house and unloaded the camels. Straw and feed were given to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 43:24 Judg 19:21 Gen 18:4 1 Tim 5:10 Gen 19:2 Luke 7:44 1 Sam 25:41 John 13:4-14

Genesis 24:33³³When food was served, he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” “Tell us,” Laban said.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 132:3-5 1 Tim 6:2 Eph 6:5-8 Eccl 9:10 Job 23:12 John 4:14 John 4:31-34 Prov 22:29

Genesis 24:34³⁴“I am the servant of Abraham,” he began.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 24:35³⁵“The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. The Lord has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 13:2 Gen 24:1 Prov 10:22 Ps 107:38 Gen 12:16 Matt 6:33 Gen 12:2 Gen 25:11 Gen 26:12-14 Prov 22:4

Genesis 24:36³⁶My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him when she was old, and my master has given him everything he owns.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 25:5 Gen 21:10 Gen 21:1-7 Gen 17:15-19 Gen 18:10-14 Rom 4:19 Gen 11:29-30

Genesis 24:37³⁷My master made me swear an oath. He said, ‘You must not acquire a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezra 9:1-3 Gen 24:2-9 Gen 27:46 Gen 6:2

Genesis 24:38³⁸but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find a wife for my son.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:4 Gen 12:1 Gen 31:19

Genesis 24:39³⁹But I said to my master, ‘What if the woman does not want to go with me?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:5

Genesis 24:40⁴⁰He answered, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you. He will make your journey a success and you will find a wife for my son from among my relatives, from my father’s family.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 23:20 Ps 16:8 Exod 33:2 Gen 17:1 Gen 5:24 1 Kgs 8:23 2 Kgs 20:3 Dan 3:28 Gen 24:7 Gen 48:15

Genesis 24:41⁴¹You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:8 Deut 29:12

Genesis 24:42⁴²When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Neh 1:11 Ezra 8:21 Gen 24:12-14 Ps 37:5 Ps 90:17 Rom 1:10 Acts 10:22 Acts 10:7-8 Gen 24:31 Gen 39:3

Genesis 24:43⁴³Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:13-14

Genesis 24:44⁴⁴Then she will reply to me, “Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels too.” May that woman be the one whom the Lord has chosen for my master’s son.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:14 1 Pet 3:8 1 Tim 2:10 Gen 2:22 Heb 13:2 Isa 32:8 Prov 16:33 Prov 18:22 Prov 19:14

Genesis 24:45⁴⁵“Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 10:30 Acts 12:12-17 Dan 9:23 Gen 24:15-20 Isa 65:24 Matt 7:7 1 Sam 1:13-15 2 Sam 7:27 Acts 4:24-33 Dan 9:19

Genesis 24:46⁴⁶She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:18-19

Genesis 24:47⁴⁷Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:10-13 Gen 24:22-24 Gen 24:53 Isa 62:3-5 Ps 45:13-14 Eph 5:26-27 Ps 45:9

Genesis 24:48⁴⁸Then I bowed down and worshiped the Lord. I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me on the right path to find the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:26-27 Prov 3:5-6 Ps 32:8 Ps 48:14 Gen 24:52 Isa 48:17 Exod 18:20 Ezra 8:21 Gen 22:23 Prov 4:11

Genesis 24:49⁴⁹Now, if you will show faithful love to my master, tell me. But if not, tell me as well, so that I may go on my way.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 47:29 Josh 2:14 Gen 32:10 Prov 3:3 Deut 2:27 Num 20:17

Genesis 24:50⁵⁰Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord ’s doing. Our wishes are of no concern.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 118:23 Gen 31:24 Gen 31:29 2 Sam 13:22 Mark 12:11 Acts 11:17 Gen 24:15 Gen 24:28 Gen 24:53 Gen 24:55

Genesis 24:51⁵¹Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 20:15 2 Sam 16:10 Gen 24:15

Genesis 24:52⁵²When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:26 Gen 24:48 Ps 116:1-2 Ps 95:6 1 Chr 29:20 2 Chr 20:18 Ps 107:21-22 Ps 34:1-2 Acts 10:25-26 Matt 2:11

Genesis 24:53⁵³Then he brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:10 Gen 24:22 Exod 11:2 Exod 12:35 Exod 3:22 2 Chr 21:3 Deut 33:13-16 Ezra 1:6 Isa 39:2 Song 4:13

Genesis 24:54⁵⁴After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:56 Gen 24:59 2 Sam 18:19 Eccl 7:10 Gen 28:5-6 Gen 45:24 Prov 22:29 2 Sam 18:27-28 Luke 8:38-39

Genesis 24:55⁵⁵But Rebekah’s brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 4:3 Judg 14:8 Lev 25:29

Genesis 24:56⁵⁶But he said to them, “Don’t detain me—the Lord has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return to my master.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 48:15 Josh 1:8 Prov 25:25 Gen 45:9-13

Genesis 24:57⁵⁷Then they said, “We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 24:58⁵⁸So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 1:38 Ps 45:10-11

Genesis 24:59⁵⁹So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 35:8 1 Thess 2:5 Gen 24:50 Gen 24:53 Gen 24:60 Num 11:12

Genesis 24:60⁶⁰They blessed Rebekah with these words: “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands of ten thousands! May your descendants possess the strongholds of their enemies.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 22:17 Gen 17:16 Ruth 4:11-12 Gen 28:3 Gen 1:28 Gen 48:15-16 Gen 9:1 Gen 48:20 Dan 7:10 Deut 21:19

Genesis 24:61⁶¹Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with the man. So Abraham’s servant took Rebekah and left.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 2:24 Ps 45:10 1 Sam 30:17 Esth 8:10 Esth 8:14 Gen 31:34

Genesis 24:62⁶²Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 16:14 Gen 25:11 Gen 12:9 Gen 20:1

Genesis 24:63⁶³He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 119:15 Josh 1:8 Ps 1:2 Ps 104:34 Ps 143:5-6 Ps 119:27 Ps 119:48 Ps 139:17-18 Ps 145:5 Ps 77:11-12

Genesis 24:64⁶⁴Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camelCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 15:18 Judg 1:14

Genesis 24:65⁶⁵and asked Abraham’s servant, “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” “That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 2:9 1 Cor 11:5-6 1 Cor 11:10 Gen 20:16

Genesis 24:66⁶⁶The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 6:30

Genesis 24:67⁶⁷Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eph 5:22-33 Song 8:2 1 Thess 4:13 2 Cor 11:1-2 Gen 18:6 Gen 18:9-10 Gen 23:1-2 Gen 25:20 Gen 29:18 Gen 37:35

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