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Bible Verses About Answers To Prayer: Abraham's servant

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Verses on Abraham's servant

  1. Before he had finished speaking, Rivkah the daughter of B'tu'el son of Milkah the wife of Nachor Avraham's brother, came out with her jug on her shoulder.

  2. The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, never having had sexual relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jug and came up.

  3. The servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug to drink."

  4. "Drink, my lord," she replied, and immediately lowered her jug onto her arm and let him drink.

  5. When she was through letting him drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they have drunk their fill."

  6. She quickly emptied her jug into the trough, then ran again to the well to draw water, and kept on drawing water for all his camels.

  7. The man gazed at her in silence, waiting to find out whether ADONAI had made his trip successful or not.

  8. When the camels were done drinking, the man took a gold nose-ring weighing one-fifth of an ounce and two gold bracelets weighing four ounces

  9. and asked, "Whose daughter are you? Tell me, please. Is there room in your father's house for us to spend the night?"

  10. She answered, "I am the daughter of B'tu'el the son Milkah bore to Nachor,"

  11. adding, "We have plenty of straw and fodder, and room for staying overnight."

  12. The man bowed his head and prostrated himself before ADONAI.

  13. Then he said, "Blessed be ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, who has not abandoned his faithful love for my master; because ADONAI has guided me to the house of my master's kinsmen."