Hathcockjudy
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Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 29:1-30 ESV
Now as soon as Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, Jacob came near and rolled the stone from the well's mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mother's brother.Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept aloud.And Jacob told Rachel that he was her father's kinsman, and that he was Rebekah's son, and she ran and told her father.As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban all these things,and Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.Then Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my kinsman, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what shall your wages be?"Now Laban had two daughters. The name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.Leah's eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful in form and appearance.Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, "I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel."Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me." Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed."So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.But in the evening he took his daughter Leah and brought her to Jacob, and he went in to her.(Laban gave his female servant Zilpah to his daughter Leah to be her servant.)And in the morning, behold, it was Leah! And Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Did I not serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"Laban said, "It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the firstborn.Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years."Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.(Laban gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her servant.)As he looked, he saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep lying beside it, for out of that well the flocks were watered. The stone on the well's mouth was large,So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.and when all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep, and put the stone back in its place over the mouth of the well.Jacob said to them, "My brothers, where do you come from?" They said, "We are from Haran."He said to them, "Do you know Laban the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well; and see, Rachel his daughter is coming with the sheep!"He said, "Behold, it is still high day; it is not time for the livestock to be gathered together. Water the sheep and go, pasture them."But they said, "We cannot until all the flocks are gathered together and the stone is rolled from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep."While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess.
Jan 22
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Psalms 22:1-31 ESV
On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God. Be not far from me, for trouble is near, and there is none to help. Many bulls encompass me; strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. For dogs encompass me; a company of evildoers encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet— I can count all my bones— they stare and gloat over me; they divide my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots. But you, O Lord, do not be far off! O you my help, come quickly to my aid! To the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog! Save me from the mouth of the lion! You have rescued me from the horns of the wild oxen! I will tell of your name to my brothers; in the midst of the congregation I will praise you: You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel! For he has not despised or abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, and he has not hidden his face from him, but has heard, when he cried to him. From you comes my praise in the great congregation; my vows I will perform before those who fear him. The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied; those who seek him shall praise the Lord! May your hearts live forever! All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you. For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations. All the prosperous of the earth eat and worship; before him shall bow all who go down to the dust, even the one who could not keep himself alive. O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of the Lord to the coming generation; they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. But I am a worm and not a man, scorned by mankind and despised by the people. All who see me mock me; they make mouths at me; they wag their heads; "He trusts in the Lord; let him deliver him; let him rescue him, for he delights in him!" Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts.
Jan 22
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Psalms 33:12-22 ESV
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage! The Lord looks down from heaven; he sees all the children of man; from where he sits enthroned he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth, he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds. The king is not saved by his great army; a warrior is not delivered by his great strength. The war horse is a false hope for salvation, and by its great might it cannot rescue. Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord; he is our help and our shield. For our heart is glad in him, because we trust in his holy name. Let your steadfast love, O Lord, be upon us, even as we hope in you.
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Psalms 20:1-9 ESV
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. May the Lord answer you in the day of trouble! May the name of the God of Jacob protect you! May he send you help from the sanctuary and give you support from Zion! May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah May he grant you your heart's desire and fulfill all your plans! May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May the Lord fulfill all your petitions! Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright. O Lord, save the king! May he answer us when we call.
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 27:45-46 ESV
until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?"Then Rebekah said to Isaac, "I loathe my life because of the Hittite women. If Jacob marries one of the Hittite women like these, one of the women of the land, what good will my life be to me?"
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 27:32-44 ESV
His father Isaac said to him, "Who are you?" He answered, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."Then Isaac trembled very violently and said, "Who was it then that hunted game and brought it to me, and I ate it all before you came, and I have blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed."As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, O my father!"But he said, "Your brother came deceitfully, and he has taken away your blessing."Esau said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me these two times. He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." Then he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"Isaac answered and said to Esau, "Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, O my father." And Esau lifted up his voice and wept.Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: "Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high. By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother; but when you grow restless you shall break his yoke from your neck." Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, "The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob."But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Arise, flee to Laban my brother in Haranand stay with him a while, until your brother's fury turns away—
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 27:21-30 ESV
Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."Then he said, "Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the Lord has blessed! May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine. Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!" As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, when Jacob had scarcely gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 27:1-20 ESV
And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing."His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me."So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me." When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the Lord your God granted me success."He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the Lord before I die.'Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Luke 15:25-32 ESV
"Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant.And he said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.'But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him,but he answered his father, 'Look, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my friends.But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your property with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!'And he said to him, 'Son, you are always with me, and all that is mine is yours.It was fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead, and is alive; he was lost, and is found.'"
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Luke 15:1-10 ESV
Just so, I tell you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents." Now the tax collectors and sinners were all drawing near to hear him.And the Pharisees and the scribes grumbled, saying, "This man receives sinners and eats with them."So he told them this parable:"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the open country, and go after the one that is lost, until he finds it?And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, rejoicing.And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.'Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance."Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek diligently until she finds it?And when she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost.'
Jan 20
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Luke 14:31-35 ESV
Or what king, going out to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple."Salt is good, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored?It is of no use either for the soil or for the manure pile. It is thrown away. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Jan 19
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Luke 14:26-27 ESV
"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Jan 19
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 26:30-35 ESV
So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank.In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, "We have found water."He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite,and they made life bitter for Isaac and Rebekah.
Jan 19
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 26:1-29 ESV
Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him,and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy.He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him.(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.)And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.But when Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."From there he went up to Beersheba.And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake."So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army,Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?"They said, "We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord."And the Lord appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you.Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."So Isaac settled in Gerar.When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," for he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because she was attractive in appearance.When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife.So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
Jan 19
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Psalms 19:9-11 ESV
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb. Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward. the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the rules of the Lord are true, and righteous altogether.
Jan 19
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Psalms 19:1-6 ESV
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
Jan 19
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 23:1-20 ESV
Now Ephron was sitting among the Hittites, and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the Hittites, of all who went in at the gate of his city,"No, my lord, hear me: I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the sight of the sons of my people I give it to you. Bury your dead."Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.And he said to Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, "But if you will, hear me: I give the price of the field. Accept it from me, that I may bury my dead there."Ephron answered Abraham,"My lord, listen to me: a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between you and me? Bury your dead."Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current among the merchants.So the field of Ephron in Machpelah, which was to the east of Mamre, the field with the cave that was in it and all the trees that were in the field, throughout its whole area, was made overto Abraham as a possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who went in at the gate of his city.After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah east of Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan. Sarah lived 127 years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.The field and the cave that is in it were made over to Abraham as property for a burying place by the Hittites. And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.And Abraham rose up from before his dead and said to the Hittites,"I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight."The Hittites answered Abraham,"Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead."Abraham rose and bowed to the Hittites, the people of the land.And he said to them, "If you are willing that I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me and entreat for me Ephron the son of Zohar,that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place."
Jan 17
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Luke 13:10-17 ESV
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.And behold, there was a woman who had had a disabling spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not fully straighten herself.When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said to her, "Woman, you are freed from your disability."And he laid his hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and she glorified God.But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day."Then the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger and lead it away to water it?And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?"As he said these things, all his adversaries were put to shame, and all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things that were done by him.
Jan 17
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Luke 13:1-5 ESV
There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices.And he answered them, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way?No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem?No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish."
Jan 17
Hathcockjudy
highlighted Genesis 24:1-67 ESV
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and departed, taking all sorts of choice gifts from his master; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia to the city of Nahor.And he made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time when women go out to draw water.And he said, "O Lord, God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today and show steadfast love to my master Abraham.Behold, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.Let the young woman to whom I shall say, 'Please let down your jar that I may drink,' and who shall say, 'Drink, and I will water your camels'—let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master."Before he had finished speaking, behold, Rebekah, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water jar on her shoulder.The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.Then the servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a little water to drink from your jar."She said, "Drink, my lord." And she quickly let down her jar upon her hand and gave him a drink.When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, "I will draw water for your camels also, until they have finished drinking." Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran again to the well to draw water, and she drew for all his camels.The man gazed at her in silence to learn whether the Lord had prospered his journey or not.When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,and said, "Please tell me whose daughter you are. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"She said to him, "I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom she bore to Nahor."She added, "We have plenty of both straw and fodder, and room to spend the night."The man bowed his head and worshiped the Lordand said, "Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken his steadfast love and his faithfulness toward my master. As for me, the Lord has led me in the way to the house of my master's kinsmen."Then the young woman ran and told her mother's household about these things.Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban. Laban ran out toward the man, to the spring.And Abraham said to his servant, the oldest of his household, who had charge of all that he had, "Put your hand under my thigh,As soon as he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister's arms, and heard the words of Rebekah his sister, "Thus the man spoke to me," he went to the man. And behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.He said, "Come in, O blessed of the Lord. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house and a place for the camels."So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.Then food was set before him to eat. But he said, "I will not eat until I have said what I have to say." He said, "Speak on."So he said, "I am Abraham's servant.The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.And Sarah my master's wife bore a son to my master when she was old, and to him he has given all that he has.My master made me swear, saying, 'You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,but you shall go to my father's house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.'I said to my master, 'Perhaps the woman will not follow me.'that I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,But he said to me, 'The Lord, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father's house.Then you will be free from my oath, when you come to my clan. And if they will not give her to you, you will be free from my oath.'"I came today to the spring and said, 'O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, if now you are prospering the way that I go,behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,"and who will say to me, "Drink, and I will draw for your camels also," let her be the woman whom the Lord has appointed for my master's son.'"Before I had finished speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came out with her water jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'She quickly let down her jar from her shoulder and said, 'Drink, and I will give your camels drink also.' So I drank, and she gave the camels drink also.Then I asked her, 'Whose daughter are you?' She said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her arms.Then I bowed my head and worshiped the Lord and blessed the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me by the right way to take the daughter of my master's kinsman for his son.Now then, if you are going to show steadfast love and faithfulness to my master, tell me; and if not, tell me, that I may turn to the right hand or to the left."but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac."Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the Lord; we cannot speak to you bad or good.Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the Lord has spoken."When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the Lord.And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master."Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."They said, "Let us call the young woman and ask her."And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."So they sent away Rebekah their sister and her nurse, and Abraham's servant and his men.The servant said to him, "Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?"And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, "Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate him!" Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.And Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening. And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there were camels coming.And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from the cameland said to the servant, "Who is that man, walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." So she took her veil and covered herself.And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death. Abraham said to him, "See to it that you do not take my son back there.The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, 'To your offspring I will give this land,' he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there."So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master and swore to him concerning this matter.
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