Bible Verses About Servants

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The man bowed his head and prostrated himself before ADONAI.

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."

The girl ran off and told her mother's household what had happened.

Rivkah had a brother named Lavan. When he saw the nose-ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists besides, and when he heard his sister Rivkah's report of what the man had said to her, he ran out to the spring and found the man standing there by the camels.

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

"Come on in," he said, "you whom ADONAI has blessed! Why are you standing outside when I have made room in the house and prepared a place for the camels?"

So the man went inside, and while the camels were being unloaded and provided straw and fodder, water was brought for him to wash his feet and the feet of the men with him.

But when a meal was set before him, he said, "I won't eat until I say what I have to say." Lavan said, "Speak."

He said, "I am Avraham's servant.

ADONAI has greatly blessed my master, so that he has grown wealthy. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, camels and donkeys.

Sarah my master's wife bore my master a son when she was old, and he has given him everything he has.

My master made me swear, saying, 'You are not to choose a wife for my son from among the women of the Kena'ani, among whom I am living;

rather, you are to go to my father's house, to my kinsmen, to choose a wife for my son.'

I said to my master, 'Suppose the woman isn't willing to follow me.'

Avraham answered me, 'ADONAI, in whose presence I live, will send his angel with you to make your trip successful; and you are to pick a wife for my son from my kinsmen in my father's house;