GENESIS 24:1-6
1 Abraham was now very old, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
2 He said to the senior servant in his household, the one in charge of all that he
had, “Put your hand under my thigh. 3 I want you to swear by the LORD,
the God of heaven and the God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my
son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 4 but will
go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac.” 5 The
servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to come back with me to
this land? Shall I then take your son back to the country you came from?”
6 “Make sure that you do not take my son back there,” Abraham said.
GENESIS 24:7-10
7 “The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me out of my father’s
household and my native land and who spoke to me and promised me on
oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’ - he will send his angel
before you so that you can get a wife for my son from there. 8 If the woman
is unwilling to come back with you, then you will be released from this oath
of mine. Only do not take my son back there.” 9 So the servant put his hand
under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning
this matter. 10 Then the servant left, taking with him ten of his master’s
camels loaded with all kinds of good things from his master. He set out for
Aram Naharaim and made his way to the town of Nahor.
GENESIS 24:11-14
11 He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was
toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water. 12 Then he
prayed, “LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today,
and show kindness to my master Abraham. 13 See, I am standing beside this
spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.
14 May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar
that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels
too’ - let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I
will know that you have shown kindness to my master.”
GENESIS 24:15-18
15 Before he had finished praying Rebekah came out with her jar on her
shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milkah, who was the wife
of Abraham’s brother Nahor. 16 The woman was very beautiful, a virgin;
no man had ever slept with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jar
and came up again. 17 The servant hurried to meet her and said, “Please give
me a little water from your jar.” 18 “Drink, my lord,” she said, and quickly
lowered the jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
GENESIS 24:19-21
19 After she had given him a drink, she said, “I’ll draw water for your
camels too, until they have had enough to drink.” 20 So she quickly emptied
her jar into the trough, ran back to the well to draw more water, and drew
enough for all his camels. 21 Without saying a word, the man watched her
closely to learn whether or not the LORD had made his journey
successful.
GENESIS 24:22-27
22 When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose
ring weighing a beka and two gold bracelets weighing ten shekels 23 Then
he asked, “Whose daughter are you? Please tell me, is there room in
your father’s house for us to spend the night?” 24 She answered him, “I am
the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milkah bore to Nahor.” 25 And
she added, “We have plenty of straw and fodder, as well as room for you
to spend the night.” 26 Then the man bowed down and worshiped the
LORD, 27 saying, “Praise be to the LORD, the God of my master
Abraham, who has not abandoned his kindness and faithfulness to my
master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of
my master’s relatives.”
GENESIS 24:3-4
3 I want you to swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and the
God of earth, that you will not get a wife for my son from the
daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I am living, 4 but will
go to my country and my own relatives and get a wife for my son
Isaac.”
2 CORINTHIANS 6:14-18
14 Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do
righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship
can light have with darkness? 15 What harmony is there between Christ
and Belial [a false god]? Or what does a believer have in common with
an unbeliever? 16 What agreement is there between the temple of God
and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I
will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and
they will be my people.” 17 Therefore, “Come out from them and be
separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive
you.” 18 And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and
daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
1 CORINTHIANS 7:39
39 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if
her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he
must belong to the Lord.
GENESIS 24: 28-33
28 The young woman ran and told her mother’s household about these
things. 29 Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he hurried out to the
man at the spring. 30 As soon as he had seen the nose ring and the bracelets on
his sister’s arms, and had heard Rebekah tell what the man said to her, he
went out to the man and found him standing by the camels near the spring.
31 “Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” he said. “Why are you
standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.” 32 So
the man went to the house, and the camels were unloaded. Straw and fodder
were brought for the camels, and water for him and his men to wash their feet.
33 Then food was set before him, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told
you what I have to say.” “Then tell us,” Laban said.
GENESIS 24: 50-55
50 Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we can say nothing
to you one way or the other. 51 Here is Rebekah; take her and go, and let her
become the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has directed.” 52 When
Abraham’s servant heard what they said, he bowed down to the ground before
the LORD. 53 Then the servant brought out gold and silver jewelry and articles
of clothing and gave them to Rebekah; he also gave costly gifts to her brother
and to her mother. 54 Then he and the men who were with him ate and drank
and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send
me on my way to my master.” 55 But her brother and her mother replied, “Let
the young woman remain with us ten days or so; then you may go.”
GENESIS 24: 56-61
56 But the servant said to them, “Do not detain me, now that the LORD has
granted success to my journey. Send me on my way so I may go to my master
and tell him the great news that I have found a wife for Isaac.” 57 Then they
said, “Let’s call Rebekah, the young woman, and ask her about it.” 58 So they
called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she
said. 59 So they sent their sister Rebekah on her way, along with her nurse and
Abraham’s servant and his men. 60 And they blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“Our sister, may you increase to thousands upon thousands; may your
offspring possess the cities of their enemies.” 61 Then Rebekah and her
attendants got ready and mounted the camels and went back with the man. So
the servant took Rebekah and left.
GENESIS 24:62-67
62 Now Isaac had come from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
63 He went out to the field one evening to meditate, and as he looked up, he
saw camels approaching. 64 Rebekah also looked up and saw Isaac. She got
down from her camel 65 and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field
coming to meet us?” “He is my master,” the servant answered. So she took
her veil and covered herself. 66 Then the servant told Isaac all he had done.
67 Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah, and he married
Rebekah. So she became his wife, and he loved her; and Isaac was comforted
after his mother’s death.