19:1 The two angels came to Sodom in the evening while 1 Lot was sitting in the city’s gateway. 2 When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face toward the ground.
19:2 He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night 3 and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” 4 “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.” 5
19:3 But he urged 6 them persistently, so they turned aside with him and entered his house. He prepared a feast for them, including bread baked without yeast, and they ate. 19:4 Before they could lie down to sleep, 7 all the men – both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom – surrounded the house. 8 19:5 They shouted to Lot, 9 “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex 10 with them!”
19:6 Lot went outside to them, shutting the door behind him. 19:7 He said, “No, my brothers! Don’t act so wickedly! 11 19:8 Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with 12 a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. 13 Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection 14 of my roof.” 15
19:9 “Out of our way!” 16 they cried, and “This man came to live here as a foreigner, 17 and now he dares to judge us! 18 We’ll do more harm 19 to you than to them!” They kept 20 pressing in on Lot until they were close enough 21 to break down the door.
19:10 So the men inside 22 reached out 23 and pulled Lot back into the house 24 as they shut the door. 19:11 Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, from the youngest to the oldest, 25 with blindness. The men outside 26 wore themselves out trying to find the door. 19:12 Then the two visitors 27 said to Lot, “Who else do you have here? 28 Do you have 29 any sons-in-law, sons, daughters, or other relatives in the city? 30 Get them out of this 31 place 19:13 because we are about to destroy 32 it. The outcry against this place 33 is so great before the Lord that he 34 has sent us to destroy it.”
19:14 Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. 35 He said, “Quick, get out of this place because the Lord is about to destroy 36 the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them. 37
19:15 At dawn 38 the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get going! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, 39 or else you will be destroyed when the city is judged!” 40 19:16 When Lot 41 hesitated, the men grabbed his hand and the hands of his wife and two daughters because the Lord had compassion on them. 42 They led them away and placed them 43 outside the city. 19:17 When they had brought them outside, they 44 said, “Run 45 for your lives! Don’t look 46 behind you or stop anywhere in the valley! 47 Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!”
19:18 But Lot said to them, “No, please, Lord! 48 19:19 Your 49 servant has found favor with you, 50 and you have shown me great 51 kindness 52 by sparing 53 my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because 54 this disaster will overtake 55 me and I’ll die. 56 19:20 Look, this town 57 over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. 58 Let me go there. 59 It’s just a little place, isn’t it? 60 Then I’ll survive.” 61
19:21 “Very well,” he replied, 62 “I will grant this request too 63 and will not overthrow 64 the town you mentioned. 19:22 Run there quickly, 65 for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.) 66
19:23 The sun had just risen 67 over the land as Lot reached Zoar. 68 19:24 Then the Lord rained down 69 sulfur and fire 70 on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord. 71 19:25 So he overthrew those cities and all that region, 72 including all the inhabitants of the cities and the vegetation that grew 73 from the ground. 19:26 But Lot’s 74 wife looked back longingly 75 and was turned into a pillar of salt.
19:27 Abraham got up early in the morning and went 76 to the place where he had stood before the Lord. 19:28 He looked out toward 77 Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of that region. 78 As he did so, he saw the smoke rising up from the land like smoke from a furnace. 79
19:29 So when God destroyed 80 the cities of the region, 81 God honored 82 Abraham’s request. He removed Lot 83 from the midst of the destruction when he destroyed 84 the cities Lot had lived in.
19:30 Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters and settled in the mountains because he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 19:31 Later the older daughter said 85 to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man anywhere nearby 86 to have sexual relations with us, 87 according to the way of all the world. 19:32 Come, let’s make our father drunk with wine 88 so we can have sexual relations 89 with him and preserve 90 our family line through our father.” 91
19:33 So that night they made their father drunk with wine, 92 and the older daughter 93 came and had sexual relations with her father. 94 But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. 95 19:34 So in the morning the older daughter 96 said to the younger, “Since I had sexual relations with my father last night, let’s make him drunk again tonight. 97 Then you go and have sexual relations with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” 98 19:35 So they made their father drunk 99 that night as well, and the younger one came and had sexual relations with him. 100 But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up. 101
19:36 In this way both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 19:37 The older daughter 102 gave birth to a son and named him Moab. 103 He is the ancestor of the Moabites of today. 19:38 The younger daughter also gave birth to a son and named him Ben-Ammi. 104 He is the ancestor of the Ammonites of today.
20:1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev 105 region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident 106 in Gerar, 20:2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
20:3 But God appeared 107 to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead 108 because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” 109
20:4 Now Abimelech had not gone near her. He said, “Lord, 110 would you really slaughter an innocent nation? 111 20:5 Did Abraham 112 not say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, 113 ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience 114 and with innocent hands!”
20:6 Then in the dream God replied to him, “Yes, I know that you have done this with a clear conscience. 115 That is why I have kept you 116 from sinning against me and why 117 I did not allow you to touch her. 20:7 But now give back the man’s wife. Indeed 118 he is a prophet 119 and he will pray for you; thus you will live. 120 But if you don’t give her back, 121 know that you will surely die 122 along with all who belong to you.”
20:8 Early in the morning 123 Abimelech summoned 124 all his servants. When he told them about all these things, 125 they 126 were terrified. 20:9 Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? 127 You have done things to me that should not be done!” 128 20:10 Then Abimelech asked 129 Abraham, “What prompted you to do this thing?” 130
20:11 Abraham replied, “Because I thought, 131 ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of 132 my wife.’ 20:12 What’s more, 133 she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife. 20:13 When God made me wander 134 from my father’s house, I told her, ‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: 135 Every place we go, say about me, “He is my brother.”’”
20:14 So Abimelech gave 136 sheep, cattle, and male and female servants to Abraham. He also gave his wife Sarah back to him. 20:15 Then Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.” 137
20:16 To Sarah he said, “Look, I have given a thousand pieces of silver 138 to your ‘brother.’ 139 This is compensation for you so that you will stand vindicated before all who are with you.” 140
20:17 Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech, as well as his wife and female slaves so that they were able to have children. 20:18 For the Lord 141 had caused infertility to strike every woman 142 in the household of Abimelech because he took 143 Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
21:1 The Lord visited 144 Sarah just as he had said he would and did 145 for Sarah what he had promised. 146 21:2 So Sarah became pregnant 147 and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him. 21:3 Abraham named his son – whom Sarah bore to him – Isaac. 148 21:4 When his son Isaac was eight days old, 149 Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do. 150 21:5 (Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.) 151
21:6 Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. 152 Everyone who hears about this 153 will laugh 154 with me.” 21:7 She went on to say, 155 “Who would 156 have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have given birth to a son for him in his old age!”
21:8 The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared 157 a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned. 158 21:9 But Sarah noticed 159 the son of Hagar the Egyptian – the son whom Hagar had borne to Abraham – mocking. 160 21:10 So she said to Abraham, “Banish 161 that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave woman will not be an heir along with my son Isaac!”
21:11 Sarah’s demand displeased Abraham greatly because Ishmael was his son. 162 21:12 But God said to Abraham, “Do not be upset 163 about the boy or your slave wife. Do 164 all that Sarah is telling 165 you because through Isaac your descendants will be counted. 166 21:13 But I will also make the son of the slave wife into a great nation, for he is your descendant too.”
21:14 Early in the morning Abraham took 167 some food 168 and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, 169 and sent her away. So she went wandering 170 aimlessly through the wilderness 171 of Beer Sheba. 21:15 When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved 172 the child under one of the shrubs. 21:16 Then she went and sat down by herself across from him at quite a distance, about a bowshot 173 away; for she thought, 174 “I refuse to watch the child die.” 175 So she sat across from him and wept uncontrollably. 176
21:17 But God heard the boy’s voice. 177 The angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and asked her, “What is the matter, 178 Hagar? Don’t be afraid, for God has heard 179 the boy’s voice right where he is crying. 21:18 Get up! Help the boy up and hold him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.” 21:19 Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. 180 She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
21:20 God was with the boy as he grew. He lived in the wilderness and became an archer. 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. 181 His mother found a wife for him from the land of Egypt. 182
21:22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you 183 in all that you do. 21:23 Now swear to me right here in God’s name 184 that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. 185 Show me, and the land 186 where you are staying, 187 the same loyalty 188 that I have shown you.” 189
21:24 Abraham said, “I swear to do this.” 190 21:25 But Abraham lodged a complaint 191 against Abimelech concerning a well 192 that Abimelech’s servants had seized. 193 21:26 “I do not know who has done this thing,” Abimelech replied. “Moreover, 194 you did not tell me. I did not hear about it until today.”
21:27 Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty. 195 21:28 Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs apart from the flock by themselves. 21:29 Abimelech asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these 196 seven ewe lambs that you have set apart?” 21:30 He replied, “You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof 197 that I dug this well.” 198 21:31 That is why he named that place 199 Beer Sheba, 200 because the two of them swore 201 an oath there.
21:32 So they made a treaty 202 at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned 203 to the land of the Philistines. 204 21:33 Abraham 205 planted a tamarisk tree 206 in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, 207 the eternal God. 21:34 So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time. 208
22:1 Some time after these things God tested 209 Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham 210 replied. 22:2 God 211 said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac 212 – and go to the land of Moriah! 213 Offer him up there as a burnt offering 214 on one of the mountains which I will indicate to 215 you.”
22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. 216 He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out 217 for the place God had spoken to him about.
22:4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of 218 the place in the distance. 22:5 So he 219 said to his servants, “You two stay 220 here with the donkey while 221 the boy and I go up there. We will worship 222 and then return to you.” 223
22:6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, 224 and the two of them walked on together. 22:7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, 225 “My father?” “What is it, 226 my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, 227 “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” 22:8 “God will provide 228 for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.
22:9 When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there 229 and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up 230 his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. 22:10 Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter 231 his son. 22:11 But the Lord’s angel 232 called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered. 22:12 “Do not harm the boy!” 233 the angel said. 234 “Do not do anything to him, for now I know 235 that you fear 236 God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”
22:13 Abraham looked up 237 and saw 238 behind him 239 a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he 240 went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” 241 It is said to this day, 242 “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.” 243
22:15 The Lord’s angel called to Abraham a second time from heaven 22:16 and said, “‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ 244 decrees the Lord, 245 ‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 22:17 I will indeed bless you, 246 and I will greatly multiply 247 your descendants 248 so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession 249 of the strongholds 250 of their enemies. 22:18 Because you have obeyed me, 251 all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another 252 using the name of your descendants.’”
22:19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together 253 for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed. 254
22:20 After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah 255 also has borne children to your brother Nahor – 22:21 Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), 256 22:22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 22:23 (Now 257 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor. 22:24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children – Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
23:1 Sarah lived 127 years. 258 23:2 Then she 259 died in Kiriath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her. 260
23:3 Then Abraham got up from mourning his dead wife 261 and said to the sons of Heth, 262 23:4 “I am a temporary settler 263 among you. Grant 264 me ownership 265 of a burial site among you so that I may 266 bury my dead.” 267
23:5 The sons of Heth answered Abraham, 268 23:6 “Listen, sir, 269 you are a mighty prince 270 among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you 271 from burying your dead.”
23:7 Abraham got up and bowed down to the local people, 272 the sons of Heth. 23:8 Then he said to them, “If you agree 273 that I may bury my dead, 274 then hear me out. 275 Ask 276 Ephron the son of Zohar 23:9 if he will sell 277 me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him sell it to me publicly 278 for the full price, 279 so that I may own it as a burial site.”
23:10 (Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth.) Ephron the Hethite 280 replied to Abraham in the hearing 281 of the sons of Heth – before all who entered the gate 282 of his city – 23:11 “No, my lord! Hear me out. I sell 283 you both the field and the cave that is in it. 284 In the presence of my people 285 I sell it to you. Bury your dead.”
23:12 Abraham bowed before the local people 23:13 and said to Ephron in their hearing, “Hear me, if you will. I pay 286 to you the price 287 of the field. Take it from me so that I may 288 bury my dead there.”
23:14 Ephron answered Abraham, saying to him, 23:15 “Hear me, my lord. The land is worth 289 400 pieces of silver, 290 but what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”
23:16 So Abraham agreed to Ephron’s price 291 and weighed 292 out for him 293 the price 294 that Ephron had quoted 295 in the hearing of the sons of Heth – 400 pieces of silver, according to the standard measurement at the time. 296
23:17 So Abraham secured 297 Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border, 23:18 as his property in the presence of the sons of Heth before all who entered the gate of Ephron’s city. 298
23:19 After this Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave in the field of Machpelah next to Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. 23:20 So Abraham secured the field and the cave that was in it as a burial site 299 from the sons of Heth.
24:1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years, 300 and the Lord had blessed him 301 in everything. 24:2 Abraham said to his servant, the senior one 302 in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh 303 24:3 so that I may make you solemnly promise 304 by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth: You must not acquire 305 a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living. 24:4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives 306 to find 307 a wife for my son Isaac.”
24:5 The servant asked him, “What if the woman is not willing to come back with me 308 to this land? Must I then 309 take your son back to the land from which you came?”
24:6 “Be careful 310 never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him. 311 24:7 “The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and the land of my relatives, 312 promised me with a solemn oath, 313 ‘To your descendants I will give this land.’ He will send his angel 314 before you so that you may find 315 a wife for my son from there. 24:8 But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, 316 you will be free 317 from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!” 24:9 So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and gave his solemn promise he would carry out his wishes. 318
24:10 Then the servant took ten of his master’s camels and departed with all kinds of gifts from his master at his disposal. 319 He journeyed 320 to the region of Aram Naharaim 321 and the city of Nahor. 24:11 He made the camels kneel down by the well 322 outside the city. It was evening, 323 the time when the women would go out to draw water. 24:12 He prayed, “O Lord, God of my master Abraham, guide me today. 324 Be faithful 325 to my master Abraham. 24:13 Here I am, standing by the spring, 326 and the daughters of the people 327 who live in the town are coming out to draw water. 24:14 I 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.’ 328 In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.” 329
24:15 Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah 330 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). 331 24:16 Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever had sexual relations with her. 332 She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up. 24:17 Abraham’s servant 333 ran to meet her and said, “Please give me a sip of water from your jug.” 24:18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering 334 her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink. 24:19 When she had done so, 335 she said, “I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.” 24:20 She quickly emptied 336 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. 24:21 Silently the man watched her with interest to determine 337 if the Lord had made his journey successful 338 or not.
24:22 After the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a beka 339 and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels 340 and gave them to her. 341 24:23 “Whose daughter are you?” he asked. 342 “Tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
24:24 She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor. 343 24:25 We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, 344 “and room for you 345 to spend the night.”
24:26 The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lord, 24:27 saying “Praised be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love 346 for my master! The Lord has led me 347 to the house 348 of my master’s relatives!” 349
24:28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household all about 350 these things. 24:29 (Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) 351 Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring. 24:30 When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring 352 and heard his sister Rebekah say, 353 “This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing 354 by the camels near the spring. 24:31 Laban said to him, 355 “Come, you who are blessed by the Lord! 356 Why are you standing out here when I have prepared 357 the house and a place for the camels?”
24:32 So Abraham’s servant 358 went to the house and unloaded 359 the camels. Straw and feed were given 360 to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet. 361 24:33 When food was served, 362 he said, “I will not eat until I have said what I want to say.” 363 “Tell us,” Laban said. 364
24:34 “I am the servant of Abraham,” he began. 24:35 “The Lord has richly blessed my master and he has become very wealthy. 365 The Lord 366 has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, male and female servants, and camels and donkeys. 24:36 My master’s wife Sarah bore a son to him 367 when she was old, 368 and my master 369 has given him everything he owns. 24:37 My 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, 24:38 but you must go to the family of my father and to my relatives to find 370 a wife for my son.’ 24:39 But I said to my master, ‘What if the woman does not want to go 371 with me?’ 372 24:40 He answered, ‘The Lord, before whom I have walked, 373 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. 24:41 You will be free from your oath 374 if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’ 24:42 When I came to the spring today, I prayed, ‘O Lord, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, 375 may events unfold as follows: 376 24:43 Here I am, standing by the spring. 377 When 378 the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say, “Give me a little water to drink from your jug.” 24:44 Then 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.’
24:45 “Before I finished praying in my heart, 379 along came Rebekah 380 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.’ 24:46 She 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. 24:47 Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel the son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.’ 381 I put the ring in her nose and the bracelets on her wrists. 24:48 Then 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 382 of my master’s brother for his son. 24:49 Now, 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.” 383
24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. 384 Our wishes are of no concern. 385 24:51 Rebekah stands here before you. Take her and go so that she may become 386 the wife of your master’s son, just as the Lord has decided.” 387
24:52 When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he bowed down to the ground before the Lord. 24:53 Then he 388 brought out gold, silver jewelry, and clothing and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave valuable gifts to her brother and to her mother. 24:54 After this, he and the men who were with him ate a meal and stayed there overnight. 389
When they got up in the morning, he said, “Let me leave now so I can return to my master.” 390 24:55 But Rebekah’s 391 brother and her mother replied, “Let the girl stay with us a few more days, perhaps ten. Then she can go.” 24:56 But he said to them, “Don’t detain me – the Lord 392 has granted me success on my journey. Let me leave now so I may return 393 to my master.” 24:57 Then they said, “We’ll call the girl and find out what she wants to do.” 394 24:58 So they called Rebekah and asked her, “Do you want 395 to go with this man?” She replied, “I want to go.”
24:59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, accompanied by her female attendant, with Abraham’s servant and his men. 24:60 They blessed Rebekah with these words: 396
“Our sister, may you become the mother 397 of thousands of ten thousands!
May your descendants possess the strongholds 398 of their enemies.”
24:61 Then Rebekah and her female servants mounted the camels and rode away with 399 the man. So Abraham’s servant 400 took Rebekah and left.
24:62 Now 401 Isaac came from 402 Beer Lahai Roi, 403 for 404 he was living in the Negev. 405 24:63 He 406 went out to relax 407 in the field in the early evening. 408 Then he looked up 409 and saw that 410 there were camels approaching. 24:64 Rebekah looked up 411 and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel 24:65 and asked 412 Abraham’s servant, 413 “Who is that man walking in the field toward us?” “That is my master,” the servant replied. 414 So she took her veil and covered herself.
24:66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened. 24:67 Then Isaac brought Rebekah 415 into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her 416 as his wife and loved her. 417 So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death. 418
5:25 Now 423 a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage 424 for twelve years. 425