Bible Verses About Servants

An exceeding comely maid, and a most beautiful virgin, and not known to man: and she went down to the spring, and filled her pitcher, and was coming back.

And the servant ran to meet her, and said: Give me a little water to drink of thy pitcher.

And she answered: Drink, my lord. And quickly she let down the pitcher upon her arm, and gave him drink.

And when he had drunk, she said: I will draw water for thy camels also, till they all drink.

And pouring out the pitcher into the troughs, she ran back to the well to draw water; and having drawn, she gave to all the camels.

But he musing, beheld her with silence, desirous to know whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

And after that the camels had drunk, the man took out golden earrings, weighing two sicles; and as many bracelets, of ten sicles weight.

And he said to her: Whose daughter art thou? tell me: is there any place in thy father's house to lodge?

And she answered: I am the daughter of Bathuel, the son of Melcha, whom she bore to Nachor.

And she said, moreover, to him: We have good store of both straw and hay, and a large place to lodge in.

The man bowed himself down, and adored the Lord,

Saying: Blessed be the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not taken away his mercy and truth from my master, and hath brought me the straight way into the house of my master's brother.

Then the maid ran, and told in her mother's house all that she had heard.

And Rebecca had a brother, named Laban, who went out in haste to the man, to the well.

And when he had seen the earrings and bracelets in his sister's hands, and had heard all that she related, saying, Thus and thus the man spoke to me: he came to the man who stood by the camels, and near to the spring of water,

And said to him: Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; why standest thou without? I have prepared the house, and a place for the camels.

And he brought him into his lodging; and he unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and hay, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men that were come with him.

And bread was set before him. But he said: I will not eat, till I tell my message. He answered him: Speak.

And he said: I am the servant of Abraham:

And the Lord hath blessed my master wonderfully, and he is become great: and he hath given him sheep and oxen, silver and gold, men servants and women servants, camels and asses.

And Sara, my master's wife, hath borne my master a son in her old age, and he hath given him all that he had.

And my master made me swear, saying: Thou shalt not take a wife for my son of the Chanaanites, in whose land I dwell:

But thou shalt go to my father's house, and shalt take a wife of my own kindred for my son:

But I answered my master: What if the woman will not come with me?

The Lord, said he, in whose sight I walk, will send his angel with thee, and will direct thy way: and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my own kindred, and of my father's house.